Schoengastia vandersandei ( Oudemans, 1905 )

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Schoengastia vandersandei ( Oudemans, 1905)

Thrombidium vandersandei Oudemans 1905: 216 .

Schoengastia vandersandei: Oudemans 1910: 86 ; Thor & Willmann 1947: 299, fig. 354; Fuller 1952: 155, fig. 3; Gunther 1952: 23; Wharton & Fuller 1952: 87; Radford 1954: 267; Audy 1957: 250; Womersley & Audy 1957: 271; Goff 1979: 332.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) vandersandei: Womersley 1952: 155 , pl. 32 (F–J); Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 81; 1968b: 88; Nadchatram et al. 1980: 272, figs. 9–16.

Schoengastia blestowei Gunther, 1939: 92 , figs. 31, 34, 37; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 103; Gunther 1952: 24; Radford 1954: 266; Womersley & Audy 1957: 269; Audy 1957: 249.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) blestowei: Womersley 1952: 165 , pl. 36 (A–E); Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 81.

Schoengastia blestowei var. megapodius Womersley and Heaslip, 1943: 104 ; Radford 1954: 266.

Type deposition. T. vandersandei: RMNH (lectotype; Fuller 1952), S. blestowei: CIH ; S. blestowei var. megapodius: CIH.

Type data. T. vandersandei : ex man, Dutch New Guinea ( Indonesia, West Papua Province); S. blestowe i: ex man, Papua New Guinea, Sepik District, Suein River; S. blestowei var. megapodius : ex Megapodius reinwardt (syn. Megapodius duperreyi ), Papua New Guinea, Sepik District, Suein River.

Hosts. RODENTIA : Rattus exulans , R. leucopus , R. sordidus ; SCANDENTIA : Tupaia glis ; CARNIVORA : Canis lupus familiaris , Felis catus ; PERAMELEMORPHIA : Echymipera kalubu ; PRIMATES : Homo sapiens ; AVES: Megapodius reinwardt .

Distribution. Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands.

Remarks. Schoengastia yeomansi Gunther, 1938 (nomen nudum) was properly described as S. blestowei Gunther, 1939 ; this species should not be mixed with Neoschoengastia yeomansi Gunther, 1939 (syn. Neoschoengastia jamesi Gunther, 1938 , nomen nudum).