Blankaartia (Blankaartia) nilotica Trägårdh, 1905

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 128

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.395
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3849337
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/486DBB53-FFE5-FFFB-88BC-FEDDDC7BFB60
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scientific name	Blankaartia (Blankaartia) nilotica Trägårdh, 1905
status

Treatment

Trombidium niloticum Trägårdh, 1905: 78 , figs 26–27, 30–31, 33–34, 36–38.

Thrombicula (Trägårdhula) nilotica – André 1945: 474.

Trägårdhula nilotica – Thor & Willmann 1947: 353.

Blankaartia nilotica – Cooreman 1948: 18. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1973: 117.

Trombicula (Blankaartia) nilotica – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 42.

Blankaartia (Blankaartia) nilotica – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 22.

Holotype

No data.

Material revised

Six imago from RMCA collected in Kamande, DR Congo, 9 May 1935.

Distribution

Sudan (Jebel Ahmed Agha), DR Congo (Kamande).

Host

Unknown.

Remarks

Described on the base of active postlarval form with erroneously associated larvae of a different family ( Vercammen-Grandjean 1973; Kudryashova 1983).

References

Abbreviations

RMCA	Royal Museum for Central Africa

Copyright notice

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
SuperOrder	Acariformes
Order	Prostigmata
Family	Trombiculidae
SubFamily	Trombiculinae
Tribe	Trombiculini
Genus	Blankaartia
SubGenus	Blankaartia