Walchia micropelta ( Traub and Evans, 1957 )

Antonovskaia, Anastasia A., Morand, Serge & Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2024, New species and new records of chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) from Cambodia, Zootaxa 5406 (2), pp. 343-358 : 356-357

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F65BF05F-CE34-466C-97F7-7AA29806FDF7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10618321
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scientific name	Walchia micropelta ( Traub and Evans, 1957 )
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Walchia micropelta ( Traub and Evans, 1957) View in CoL

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 View Materials , 14323 View Materials , 14327 View Materials ) ex M. surifer C0746, CAMBODIA, Mondulkiri Province, Keo Seima , 27 November 2009 ; one larva ( ZIN 14308 View Materials ) ex M. surifer C0761, same locality, 28 November 2009 .