Neoschoengastia longitarsalis Schluger and Belskaya, 1966

Kaluz, Stanislav, Hung, Nguyen Manh, Capek, Miroslav & Literak, Ivan, 2016, Two new species and new records of chiggers (Acari: Leeuwenhoekiidae, Trombiculidae) from birds in Vietnam, Zootaxa 4061 (5), pp. 483-503 : 496

Neoschoengastia longitarsalis Schluger and Belskaya, 1966

Material examined: Location A: 1 larva from Pellorneum ruficeps ( Passeriformes : Pellorneidae ), 1 February 2010.

Distribution and hosts: N. longitarsalis is known from Turkmenistan from Oenanthe picata (Blyth) ( Passeriformes : Muscicapidae ), Oenanthe finschii (Heuglin) ( Passeriformes : Muscicapidae ), Oenanthe isabellina (Temminck) ( Passeriformes : Muscicapidae ), Oenanthe hispanica (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Muscicapidae ), Petronia petronia Linnaeus ( Passeriformes : Passeridae ), Coracias garullus Linnaeus ( Coraciiformes : Coraciidae ), Athene noctua (Scopoli) ( Strigiformes : Strigidae ), and Monticola saxatilis (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Muscicapidae ) ( Kudryashova 1998). We found N. longitarsalis in Vietnam for the first time. Pellorneum ruficeps is a new host for this chigger.