Schoengastia fitzsimonsi ( Lawrence, 1949 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 77-78

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scientific name	Schoengastia fitzsimonsi ( Lawrence, 1949 )
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Treatment

Schoengastia fitzsimonsi ( Lawrence, 1949) View in CoL

Phrynacarus fitzsimonsi Lawrence, 1949: 463 , fig. 48.

Endotrombicula (Phrynacarus) fitzsimonsi – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 73.

Schoengastia (Phrynacarus) fitzsimonsi View in CoL – Vercammen-Grandjean 1958b: 665, pl. 7. — Zumpt 1961: 159, fig. 92 (e–f).

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) fitzsimmonsi [sic] – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 83.

Syntypes

NMSA 4873 .

Material revised

One specimen from RMCA (No. 113924 ) identified by Lawrence.

Distribution

South Africa (Jonkersberg, Knysna).

Host

Heleophryne regis .

References

Lawrence R. F. 1949. The larval trombiculid mites of South African vertebrates. Annals of the Natal Museum 11 (3): 405 - 486.

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1958 b. Revue des Schoengastia centrafricains et remaniements divers de cet important genre (Acarina - Trombiculidae). Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparee 33 (5 - 6): 619 - 670.

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1965 c. Trombiculinae of the World. Synopsis with Generic, Subgeneric, and Group Diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco.

Wharton G. W. & Fuller H. S. 1952. A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 1 - 185.

Zumpt F. (ed.) 1961. The arthropod parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). Vol. 1: Chelicerata. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research 11 (50): 1 - 457.

Abbreviations

RMCA	Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
RMCA	Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
SuperOrder	Acariformes
Order	Trombidiformes
Family	Trombiculidae
SubFamily	Trombiculinae
Tribe	Schoengastiini
Genus	Schoengastia