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Walchia micropelta

Creators

  • 1. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia;

Description

Walchia micropelta (Traub and Evans, 1957)

Distribution and hosts. This species was described from Thailand (Traub & Evans 1957) and later was recorded in China (Wen 1984a), Vietnam (Schluger et al. 1960; Antonovskaia et al. 2017), and Cambodia (this study); it was found on 19 rodent species and one treeshrew (Stekolnikov 2021).

Material examined. Three larvae (ZIN 14321, 14323, 14327) ex M. surifer C0746, CAMBODIA, Mondulkiri Province, Keo Seima, 27 November 2009; one larva (ZIN 14308) ex M. surifer C0761, same locality, 28 November 2009.

Notes

Published as part of Antonovskaia, Anastasia A., Morand, Serge & Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2024, New species and new records of chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) from Cambodia, pp. 343-358 in Zootaxa 5406 (2) on pages 356-357, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/10618283

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87CD2E1E283BFF471354898FFE90

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.7 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10618283 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE5FFB52E132835FFD0142E8958FFD0 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/F65BF05F-CE34-466C-97F7-7AA29806FDF7 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03DC87CD2E1E283BFF471354898FFE90 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/221099577 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/287566/taxon/03DC87CD2E1E283BFF471354898FFE90.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZIN
Event date
2009-11-27 , 2009-11-28
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Walchia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ZIN 14308 , ZIN 14321, 14323, 14327
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Traub and Evans
Species
micropelta
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2009-11-27 , 2009-11-28
Taxonomic concept label
Walchia micropelta (and, 1957) sec. Antonovskaia, Morand & Stekolnikov, 2024

References

  • Traub, R. & Evans, T. M. (1957) Records and descriptions of chiggers of the subgenus Walchia Ewing, 1931, from Southeast Asia (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, 28, 297 - 358.
  • Wen, T. H. (1984 a) Catalogue of the known species of sand mites and their hosts in China (Acariformes: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). In: Wen, T. H. (Ed.), Sand Mites of China (Acariformes: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). Xue Lin Publishing House, Shanghai, pp. 295 - 339. [in Chinese]
  • Schluger, E. G., Grochovskaja, I. M., Ngu, D. V., Hoe, N. X. & Tung, D. K. (1960) The trombiculid mites of the genus Gahrliepia (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) from North Viet-Nam. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 39, 462 - 476. [in Russian]
  • Antonovskaia, A. A., Lopatina, Y. V. & Nguen, V. H. (2017) The infestation of small mammals in south-eastern Vietnam with harvest mites (Acari: Trombiculidae). Meditsinskaya Parazitologiya i Parazitarnye Bolezni, 1 (1), 36 - 43. [In Russian with English summary]
  • Stekolnikov, A. A. (2021) A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia. Zootaxa, 4913 (1), 1 - 163. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4913.1.1