Eutrombicula splendens (Ewing)

Charleston Co., Wedge Plantation, 31 August 1995, ex Neotoma floridana, coll. K. Clark; Georgetown Co., Hobcaw Barony, 18 July 1995, ex N. floridana, coll. K.L. Clark. Eutrombicula splendens is a pest chigger of humans, but larvae usually parasitize reptiles as well as birds and mammals including deer (Forrester et al. 1996).