Leptotrombidium fulleri (Ewing, 1945)

Antonovskaia, A. A., Balakirev, A. E. & Lopatina, Y. V., 2023, New data on the distribution of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) associated with small mammals in Vietnam, Zootaxa 5346 (3), pp. 271-306 : 289

* Leptotrombidium fulleri (Ewing, 1945)

Material examined. Vietnam: Qu ảng Bình (Lệ Thủy, Lâm Thǔy)— Tupaia belangeri ( AB, February–March 2016, 3 larvae), Tuyen Quang (около Na Hang)— Neotetracus sinensis (April 2018, 7 larvae) .

Distribution. Burma, China, India, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Turkmenistan, Thailand (Traub and Lakshana, 1966; Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976; Wang and Yu, 1992; Kudryashova, 1998; Chaisiri et al., 2016), Vietnam: SƠn La (Mộc Chau, October 1977)— Rattus tanezumi ; Hòa Bình (Kim Bôi, Đú Sáng, Thung Rḗch (?), February 1972, May 1972)— Paguma larvata ; Đồng Nai (Xuân Lộc, November, December 1978)— Bandicota savilei (= B. bengalensis ); Gia Lai (An Khê, December, March, April, November 1978)— Menetes berdmorei ; Phú Yên (Đồng Xuân, Xuân SƠn, June 1976); Bình Thuận (Hàm Tân, Tân Nghĩa, February 1976) ( Chau et al. 2007; Stekolnikov 2021); Thừa Thiên-Huḗ (Huḗ, May 1960)— Tupaia belangeri (= Tupaia glis ) (Traub & Lakshana 1966). Hosts with no locality indicated: Tupaia belangeri (= Tupaia glis ), Bandicota savilei (= B. bengalensis ), Rattus tanezumi (= R. flavipectus ), Rattus andamanensis (= R. koratensis ) ( Chau et al. 2007).

Remarks. Specimens collected in Tuyen Quang differ from the description of L. fuller ( Stekolnikov 2013) by the length of scutal setae (PL = 70–76 vs. 55–60). 1 larva has two barbed setae on palpal tibia (fPp = N/N/BNB vs. N/N/BNN).