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Microtrombicula fieldi

Description

Microtrombicula fieldi (Audy, 1956)

Eutrombicula fieldi Audy, 1956c: 39, figs. 4, 5; Audy 1957: 243.

Microtrombicula (Scapuscutala) fieldi: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 123, pl. II (1–3, 7).

Eltonella (Eltonella) fieldi: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 41; 1968b: 69.

Eltonella fieldi: Lakshana 1973: 12.

Type deposition. BMNH 1956.8.21.6.

Type data. Ex Dasia olivacea (syn. Lygosoma olivaceum), Malaysia, Selangor State, Bukit Lagong Forest Reserve.

Hosts. SQUAMATA: Dasia olivacea, Draco volans.

Distribution. Malaysia, Thailand.

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, pp. 1-163 in Zootaxa 4913 (1) on page 134, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Microtrombicula
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
BMNH 1956.8
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Audy
Species
fieldi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Microtrombicula fieldi (Audy, 1956) sec. Stekolnikov, 2021

References

  • Audy, J. R. (1956 c) Trombiculid mites infesting birds, reptiles and arthropods in Malaya, with a taxonomic revision, and descriptions of a new genus, two new subgenera, and six new species. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 28, 27 - 80.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1965 a) Revision of the genera: Eltonella Audy, 1956 and Microtrombicula Ewing, 1950, with descriptions of fifty new species and transferal of subgenus Chiroptella to genus Leptotrombidium (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acarologia, 7 (Supplement), 34 - 257.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1965 b) Trombiculinae of the world. Synopsis with generic, subgeneric, and group diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California, 191 pp.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1968 b) The chigger mites of the Far East (Acarina: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington, D. C., 135 pp.
  • Lakshana, P. (1973) A checklist of the trombiculid mites of Thailand (Prostigmata: Trombiculidae). US Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, 45 pp.