Laurentella indica: Schluger et al. 1960a: 178

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Laurentella indica: Schluger et al. 1960a: 178 , fig. 6.

Ascoschoengastia (Ascoschoengastia) indica: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 91 ; 1968b: 93; Mohd Zain et al. 2015: tab. 1.

Ascoschoengastia indica: Nadchatram 1972: 193 ; Goff 1979: 326; Wen 1984b: 313; Domrow & Lester 1985: 21, figs. 71, 74–77; Li et al. 1997: 372, fig. 2-27-5; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 333, fig. 110; Chung et al. 2015a: 1248; 2015b: 14, fig. 4; Chaisiri et al. 2016: 329; Antonovskaia et al. 2017: 39.

Ascoschoengastia monteli André, 1954: 200 , figs. 1–4; Le Gac et al. 1954: 392.

Trombicula muris Walch, 1922: 562 , figs. 14–17.

Neoschoengastia muris: Radford 1942: 74 , fig. 83.

Euschoengastia muris: Radford 1954: 265 .

Type deposition. S. indica: BMNH (lectotype); A. monteli: MNHN (our data); T. muris : no data ( Fuller 1952).

Type data. A. indica : ex Bandicota bengalensis (syn. Nesokia (Gunomys) bengalensis ), Calcutta ( India, West Bengal State, Kolkata); A. monteli : ex Rattus norvegicus (syn. Mus decumanus ) and Niviventer fulvescens (syn. Mus jerdoni ), Saïgon ( Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City); T. muris : ex rat, Sumatra, Deli ( Indonesia, North Sumatra Province, Deli Serdang Regency).

Hosts. RODENTIA : Bandicota bengalensis , B. indica , B. savilei , Berylmys berdmorei , B. bowersi , Callosciurus caniceps , C. erythraeus , C. erythraeus castaneoventris , C. nigrovittatus , C. notatus , C. prevostii , Funambulus pennantii , Hydromys chrysogaster , Hylopetes alboniger , H. phayrei , Lenothrix canus , Leopoldamys edwardsi , L. sabanus , Maxomys surifer , M. whiteheadi , Melomys cervinipes , Menetes berdmorei , Mus cervicolor , M. musculus , M. musculus castaneus , Niviventer andersoni , N. cremoriventer , N. fulvescens , Paramelomys moncktoni , Petaurista elegans , Rattus andamanensis , R. argentiventer , R. exulans , R. fuscipes , R. leucopus , R. losea , R. nitidus , R. norvegicus , R. praetor , R. rattus , R. sordidus , R. tanezumi , R. tiomanicus , R. tunneyi , Sundamys annandalei , S. muelleri , Sundasciurus lowii , S. tenuis , Tamiops mcclellandi , Tatera indica , Uromys caudimaculatus ; SORICOMORPHA : Suncus murinus ; SCANDENTIA : Tupaia belangeri chinensis , T. glis , T. minor ; CARNIVORA : Arctogalidia trivirgata , Herpestes javanicus , H. urva , Paradoxurus hermaphroditus ; CHIROPTERA : Hipposideros armiger , Pipistrellus pipistrellus ; PRIMATES : Nycticebus coucang ; AVES: Gallus gallus domesticus , Picus canus , Psilopogon faber , Saxicola ferreus ; ARTHROPODA: Sphaeropaeus globusmagicus .

Distribution. Australia, Burma, Ceylon, China, Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldive Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Remarks. I found the lectotype and two paralectotypes of S. indica designated by Vercammen-Grandjean in the BMNH collection. The slides have original labels with the species name Schongastia indicus Hirst or Schongastia indica Hirst and collection data, but have no accession numbers of BMNH. Additional labels have the logo of G.W. Hooper Foundation and are signed by the hand of Vercammen-Grandjean: Schoengastiella indica indica V-G, 1969. That act of designation was not published; the name Schoengastiella was used instead of Schoengastia obviously by a mistake.

In addition, there are four slides labeled as “types” of Neoschoengastia (corrected to Ascoschoengastia ) indica in that collection: 1) “Type” ( BMNH 1948.2.3.4) ex Rattus rattus (syn. Rattus rattus kandiyanus ), Ceylon, coll. C.D. Radford. The slide has an additional label signed by the hand of Vercammen-Grandjean: “ Holotype Schoengastiella indica ceylonica ”; 2) “ Lectotype ” ( BMNH 1948.2.3.7), nymph dorsal, reared from larva on rat, Maldive Islands, coll. C.D. Radford; 3) “ Lectotype ” ( BMNH 1948.2.3.8), nymph ventral, reared from larva on rat, Maldive Islands, coll. C.D. Radford; 4) “ Lectotype ” (corrected to “Type”) ( BMNH 1948.2.3.10), adult, Maldive Islands, palm tree, 2 Feb. 1945, coll. C.D. Radford. These slides have nothing in common with the original type series of Hirst and thus should be regarded as none-type specimens.