Leptotrombidium paradux Vercammen-Grandjean and Langston, 1976

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 : 491

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scientific name	Leptotrombidium paradux Vercammen-Grandjean and Langston, 1976
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Material examined. Location A: 1 larva from Pellorneum ruficeps ( Passeriformes : Pellorneidae ), 4 February 2010.

Distribution and hosts. L. paradux is reported to parasitize small rodents of the family Muridae (Rodentia) in India ( Stan Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003) and in Russian Caucasus (Krasnodar Krai, Adygea, Karachai- Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Dagestan) ( Stekolnikov 2004, 2013). We found L. paradux in Vietnam for the first time. Pellorneum ruficeps is a new host for this chigger.

References

Stan Fernandes, S. J. & Kulkarni, S. M. (2003) Studies on the Trombiculid Mite Fauna of India. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 539 pp.

Stekolnikov, A. A (2004) Variability in Leptotrombidium europaeum and two new related chigger mite species (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Caucasus. Parazitologiya, 38, 388 - 405. [in Russian]

Stekolnikov, A. A (2013) Leptotrombidium (Acari: Trombiculidae) of the world. Zootaxa, 3728 (1), 1 - 173. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3728.1.1

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. & Langston, R. (1976) The Chigger Mites of the World (Acarina Trombiculidae). III. Leptotrombidium complex. George Williams Hooper Research Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 1061 pp.