Afrotrombicula (Afrotrombicula) nicolei ( Taufflieb, 1958 ), 2023

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2023, A revision of the chigger genus Afrotrombicula (Acariformes: Trombiculidae), Zootaxa 5323 (1), pp. 27-55 : 34-36

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scientific name	Afrotrombicula (Afrotrombicula) nicolei ( Taufflieb, 1958 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Afrotrombicula (Afrotrombicula) nicolei ( Taufflieb, 1958) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 5, 6)

Neotrombicula nicolei Taufflieb, 1958: 418 View in CoL , fig. 2; Stekolnikov 2018: 181.

Neotrombicula (Neotrombicula) nicolei: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965: 71 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. SIF = 7BS-B-3-3111.1000; fPp = B/B/NNB; PL> AM> AL (PL> AL> AM); fD = 2H-6-6-6(5)+(22– 27); DS = 38–46; V = 52–64; NDV = 90–110; palpal femur, genu, and tibia with multiple puncta; palpal femoral seta heavily branched, palpal genual seta with few short branches; shape of scutum between pentagonal and hexagonal; scutal puncta dense and small; posterior scutal margin prominent, rounded, almost straight in center; f 1 at level of S 1; f 2 at level of S 2; Ip = 1066–1147. Standard measurements are given in Table 2.

Note. *—after Taufflieb (1958); **—after Kolebinova & Vercammen-Grandjean (1981).

Type deposition. Holotype (60B 1) and one paratype (60B 2) in MNHN; one paratype in MHNG; one paratype was in the collection of Abonnenc; three paratypes were in the collection of Taufflieb.

Distribution and hosts. This species was described from Congo (vicinities of Brazzaville), ex ears of Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall) , Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck) , and Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran) ( Rodentia : Muridae ).

Type material examined. Holotype ( MNHN 60 About MNHN B 1) ex Oenomys hypoxanthus , B/ville (Brazzaville)-[19]56.

Additional material examined. One topotypic specimen ( MHNG), 2046-2, ex Dasymys incomtus, Gango Luigolo (obviously, Gangalingolo = Nganga Lingolo, 4°19′43″ S, 15°09′24″ E), Congo-[19]62, from Taufflieb GoogleMaps .

References

Kolebinova, M. G. & Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1981) Two new species of the genus Afrotrombicula from Gabon (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 61 (5 - 6), 415 - 420.

Stekolnikov, A. A. (2018) Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 395, 1 - 233. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2018.395

Taufflieb, R. (1958) Notes sur les Trombiculidae (Acarina) de la region de Brazzaville (Moyen-Congo). Description d'une sousespece et de deux especes nouvelles. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique, 51 (3), 413 - 421.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1965) Trombiculinae of the world, synopsis with generic, subgeneric, and group diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 191 pp.