Blankaartia alleei ( Ewing, 1926 )

Bassini-Silva, Ricardo, Takatsu, Julia Carvalho, Bermúdez, Sergio E., Miranda, Roberto J., Welbourn, Cal, Ochoa, Ron, Barros-Battesti, Darci Moraes & Jacinavicius, Fernando de Castro, 2021, A checklist of chiggers (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae) of Panama, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 763-789 : 767

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scientific name	Blankaartia alleei ( Ewing, 1926 )
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Type locality: Panama, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Island ( Ewing 1926). Type host: collected from the soil without host information. Type depository: USNM (holotype). Panama records. This species was described from an adult collected in Barro Coloroado Island by Ewing (1926) without a description of larvae. Only years later, Michener (1946a) obtained the larvae from several hosts (listed above) and reared them in the laboratory, obtaining all the other stages that had not yet been described. The larvae B of. alleei were collected from seventeen birds, Spatula discors (= Anas discors ) (L., 1766) ( Anseriformes : Anatidae ), Piaya cayana (L., 1766) ( Cuculiformes : Cuculidae ), Crotophaga ani L., 1758 ( Cuculiformes : Cuculidae ), Gallus gallus (L., 1758) ( Galliformes : Phasianidae ), Porphyrio martinicus (= Porphyrula martinica )

(L., 1766) ( Gruiformes : Rallidae ), Amblycercus holosericeus (Deppe, 1830) ( Passeriformes : Icteridae ), Thamnophilus doliatus L., 1764 ( Passeriformes : Thamnophilidae ), Saltator atriceps (Lesson, 1832) ( Passeriformes : Thraupidae ), Cantorchilus leucotis (= Thryothorus leucotis ) (Lafresnaye, 1845) ( Passeriformes : Troglodytidae ), Tyrannus melancholicus Vieillot, 1819 , Myiozetetes cayanensis (L., 1766), Myiozetetes similis (Spix, 1825) , Myiarchus ferox (Gmelin, 1789) ( Passeriformes : Tyrannidae ), Egretta caerulea (= Florida caerulea ) L., 1758, Ardea alba

(= Casmerodius albus ) (L., 1758) ( Pelecaniformes : Ardeidae ), Anhinga anhinga (L., 1766) ( Suliformes : Anhingidae ), Trogon massena Gould, 1838 ( Trogoniformes : Trogonidae ) and a rabbit, Sylvilagus brasiliensis (= Sylvilagus gabbi ) L., 1758 ( Lagomorpha : Leporidae ), from Gamboa, Panama Province and Santa Rosa, Colón Province. In addition, Brennan and Yunker (1966) reported this species from Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (L., 1766) ( Rodentia : Caviidae ), in Cerro Pierre, Darién Province. Other record. Surinam ( Brennan and Bronswijk 1975).

References

Brennan J. M., Yunker C. E. 1966. The Chiggers of Panama (Acarina: Trombiculidae). In Wenzel R. L., Tipton V. J. (Eds). Ectoparasites of Panama. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. pp. 221 - 266.

Brennan J. M., van Bronswijk J. E. M. H. 1975. Parasitic mites of Surinam XXI. New records of Surinam and certain French Guiana chiggers with the description of a new species of Loomisia Brennan & Reed, 1972 (Acarina: Trombiculidae). J. Med. Entomol., 12: 243 - 249. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 12.2.243

Ewing H. E. 1926. Key to known adult Trombiculas (Adults of Chiggers) of the New World with descriptions of two new species (Acarina, Trombidoidea). Entomol. News, 37: 111 - 113.

Michener C. D. 1946 a. The taxonomy and bionomics of a new subgenus of chigger mites (Acarina, Trombiculinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am., 39: 432 - 445. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 39.3.431