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Whartonacarus sulae ( Oudemans, 1910 ), 2018

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 188

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.395

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A244F97F-8CEB-40CE-A182-7E5440337CAA

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3849397

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scientific name

 Whartonacarus sulae ( Oudemans, 1910 )
status

comb. nov.

Whartonacarus sulae ( Oudemans, 1910) View in CoL comb. nov.

Microthrombidium sulae Oudemans, 1910a: 85 .

Microthrombidium sulae – Oudemans 1912: 7, fig. A.

Trombicula sulae – Radford 1942: 60, fig. 19. — Audy & Vercammen-Grandjean 1961a: 132. — Zumpt 1961: 139.

Trombicula (Eutrombicula) sulae – Thor & Willmann 1947: 278, fig. 333.

Eutrombicula sulae – Fuller 1952: 135.

Trombicula (Trombicula) sulae – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 70.

Eutrombicula (?) sulae – Taufflieb 1960b: 224.

Eutrombicula (Eutrombicula) sulae – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 33.

Neacariscus (Whartonacarus) sulae – Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976: 969, pl. 282.

Holotype

Private collection of Oudemans ( Oudemans 1912), RMNH ( Fuller 1952; Wharton & Fuller 1952).

Distribution

West Africa.

Hosts

Morus bassanus ( Zumpt 1961) , M. capensis (original data).

Remarks

The description was based on a single specimen from unknown collection locality in Western Africa.

Audy J. R. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1961 a. African Trombiculidae (Acarina). 1. An interim note on the genus Trombicula Berlese and the subgenus Microtrombicula Ewing. Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (12): 125 - 133. Available from https: // hdl. handle. net / 10520 / AJA 03040798 _ 814 [accessed 4 December 2017].

Fuller H. S. 1952. The mite-larvae of the family Trombiculidae in the Oudemans collection: taxonomy and medical importance. Zoologische Verhandelingen 18: 1 - 261.

Oudemans A. C. 1910 a. Acarologische aanteekeningen XXXIII. Entomologische Berichten 3 (54): 83 - 90. Available from https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8983129 [accessed 4 December 2017].

Oudemans A. C. 1912. Die bis jetzt bekannten Larven von Thrombidiidae und Erythraeidae. Zoologische Jahrbucher suppl. 14 (1): 1 - 230.

Radford C. D. 1942. The larval Trombiculinae (Acarina: Trombidiidae) with descriptions of twelve new species. Parasitology 34 (1): 55 - 81. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000015997

Taufflieb R. 1960 b. Etude d'une collection de Trombiculidae d'Afrique Occidentale. Acarologia 2 (2): 224 - 237.

Thor S. & Willmann C. 1947. Acarina. In: Schulze F. E., Kukenthal W. & Heider K. (eds) Das Tierreich 71. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin.

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.

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. & Langston R. L. 1976. The Chigger Mites of the World (Acarina: Trombiculidae et Leeuwenhoekiidae). Vol. III. Leptotrombidium Complex. George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

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.

RMNH

Netherlands, Leiden, Nationaal Natuurhistorische Museum ("Naturalis") [formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie]
RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Trombiculidae

SubFamily

Trombiculinae

Tribe

Trombiculini

Genus

Whartonacarus

Specimens