Blankaartia sinnamaryi
- 1. Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia;
- 2. Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Description
Blankaartia sinnamaryi (Floch et Fauran, 1956)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (p r e v a l e n c e): 21 larvae, from Coraciiformes, Momotidae: Momotus lessonii (L: 1/1), Passeriformes, Tyrannidae: Attila spadiceus (Gmelin) (L: 1/2), Troglodytidae: Pheugopedius maculipectus (Lafresnaye) (L: 2/5), Henicorhina leucosticta (Cabanis) (L: 1/3), Polioptilidae: Ramphocaenus melanurus Vieillot (L: 1/1), Turdidae: Turdus grayi Bonaparte (L: 2/15), Parulidae: Helmitheros vermivorum (Gmelin) (U: 1/9). The 21 chiggers were distributed on individual host birds as follows: M. lessonii (7 larvae on 1 bird), A. spadiceus (2 larvae on 1 bird), P. maculipectus (2 and 1 larvae on 2 birds), H. leucosticta (2 larvae on 1 bird), R. melanurus (4 larvae on 1 bird), T. grayi (1 and 1 larva on 2 birds), H. vermivorum (1 larva on 1 bird).
R e m a r k s: This chigger has been recorded in widely distributed area from the southern USA (Texas – Brennan 1965; Florida – Spalding et al. 1997) to Brazil (there B. sinnamaryi has been found parasitising birds, bats, lizards and rodents – Bassini-Silva et al. 2017) and including Costa Rica (Arnold 1970, StekoĽnikov et al. 2007), CUba (Daniel and Stekol’nikov 2003), French Guiana (Floch and Fauran 1956), Honduras (this paper), Jamaica (Brennan 1953), Panama (Brennan and Jones 1961a, Brennan and Yunker 1966), Peru (Brennan and Jones 1961b), Suriname (Brennan and van Bronswijk 1975) and Trinidad (Brennan and Jones 1960). Brennan and Jones (1960) state this species parasitising six bird orders including six families, 13 genera and 21 species, the most numerous in the order Passeriformes (15 bird species). Bassini-Silva et al. (2017) found B. sinnamaryi on birds of two orders, three families, six genera with seven species and Walters et al. (2011) observed B. sinnamaryi parasitising three bird species belonging to three orders. It also infects the bat Phyllostomus hastatus (Pallas) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), 21 bird species of more orders (Brennan and Yunker 1966) and one species of reptiles (Brennan and Jones 1960). Blankaartia sinnamaryi was reported also from the Falconiformes and Strigiformes (Brennan and YUnker 1966). This is the first report of B. sinnamaryi in Honduras. Of the seven bird species parasitised there, M. lessonii, P. maculipectus, R. melanurus, T. grayi and H. vermivorum are new host records.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Trombiculidae
- Genus
- Blankaartia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Floch et Fauran
- Species
- sinnamaryi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Blankaartia sinnamaryi (et, 1956) sec. Kalúz, Literák & Kolenčík, 2018
References
- FLOCH H., FAURAN P. 1956: Sur deux especes du genre Trombicula (Acariens, Trombiculidae) nouvelles pour la faune de la Guyane Francaise: Trombicula alfreddugesi (Oudemans, 1910) et Trombicula sinnamaryi n. sp. Arch. Inst. Pasteur Guyane Fr. 17: 1 - 7.
- BRENNAN J. M. 1965. Two new species and other records of chiggers from Texas (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Acarologia 7: 79 - 83.
- SPALDING M. G., WRENN W. J., SCHWIKERT S. T., SCHMIDT J. A. 1997. Dermatitis in young Florida sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis pratensis) due to infestation by the chigger, Blankaartia sinnamaryi. J. Parasitol. 83: 768 - 771.
- BASSINI-SILVA R., JACINAVICIUS F. C., MENDOZA-ROLDAN J. A., DAEMON E., BARROS-BATTESTI D. M. 2017: Description of Blankaartia shatrovi n. sp. (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Brazil. J. Med. Entomol. 54: 82 - 90.
- ARNOLD K. A. 1970: Notes on avian ectoparasites from Costa Rica. I. Acarina and Diptera. Rev. Biol. Trop. 16: 259 - 265.
- STEKOlNIKOV A., LITERAK I., CAPEK M., HAVLIcEK M. 2007: Chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from wild birds in Costa Rica, with a description of three new species. Folia Parasitol. 54: 59 - 67.
- BRENNAN J. M. 1953: A note on the chiggers of Jamaica (Acarina: Trombiculidae). J. Parasitol. 39: 292 - 295.
- BRENNAN J. M., JONES E. K. 1961 a: New genera and species of chiggers from Panama (Acarina: Trombiculidae). J. Parasitol. 47: 105 - 124.
- BRENNAN J. M., YUNKER C. E. 1966: The chiggers of Panama (Acarina: Trombiculidae). In: R. L. Wenzel and V. J. Tipton (Eds.), Ec-
- BRENNAN J. M., JONES E. K. 1961 b: Chiggers of Peru (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Acarologia 3: 172 - 205.
- BRENNAN J. M., VAN BRONSWIJK J. E. M. H. 1975: Parasitic mites of Surinam. XXI. New record of Surinam and certain French Guiana chiggers with the description of a new species of Loomisia Brennan & Reed, 1972 (Acarina, Trombiculidae). J. Med. Entomol. 12: 243 - 249.
- BRENNAN J. M., JONES E. K. 1960: Chiggers of Trinidad B. W. I. (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Acarologia 2: 493 - 540.
- WALTERS B. L., WHITAKER J. O. JR., GIKAS N. S., WRENN W. J. 2011: Host and Distribution Lists of Chiggers (Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae), of North American Wild Vertebrates North of Mexico. Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology. Paper 697: 183 pp.