Microtrombicula sicei ( André, 1951 ), Stekolnikov, 2018

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 170

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scientific name	Microtrombicula sicei ( André, 1951 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Microtrombicula sicei ( André, 1951) View in CoL comb. nov.

Thrombicula sicei André, 1951a: 216 , fig. 1.

Thrombicula sicei – André 1951c: 374. — Le Gac 1951: 545; 1952a: 748; 1952b: 477.

Trombicula (Trombicula) sicei – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 70.

Trombicula sicei – Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 231. — Audy & Vercammen-Grandjean 1961a: 131. — Zumpt 1961: 138.

Eltonella (Eltonella) sicei – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 74, pl. T; 1965c: 42. — Taufflieb 1965a: 25. — Taufflieb et al. 1967: 118.

Holotype

MNHN ( Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a).

Distribution

Central African Republic (Bangui, Berbérati, Bossangoa, Bouar, Kaga Bandoro, Kouki, M’Baiki, Méré, Mongoumba, Possel, Yaka), Cameroon (Yaoundé), Angola (Dundo).

Hosts

Aethomys medicatus , Anomalurus pusillus , Arvicanthis niloticus , Gallus gallus , Ichneumia albicauda , Lemniscomys barbarus , L. striatus , Mastomys coucha ( Le Gac 1952a) , M. natalensis ( Zumpt 1961) , Mylomys dybowskii , Numida meleagris , N. meleagris galeatus , Pternistis bicalcaratus , Ptilopachus petrosus , P. petrosus brehmi , Rattus rattus , Thryonomys swinderianus .

References

Andre M. 1951 a. Deux nouvelles especes de Thrombicula d'Afrique Equatoriale. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique 44 (3 - 4): 215 - 221.

Andre M. 1951 c. Sur une forme larvaire de Schongastia (Acarien) parasite de petits Mammiferes en Oubangui-Chari. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 2 eme serie 23: 372 - 374. Available from https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 54516253 [accessed 29 November 2017].

Audy J. R. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1961 a. African Trombiculidae (Acarina). 1. An interim note on the genus Trombicula Berlese and the subgenus Microtrombicula Ewing. Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (12): 125 - 133. Available from https: // hdl. handle. net / 10520 / AJA 03040798 _ 814 [accessed 4 December 2017].

Le Gac P. 1951. Prospection et capture des acariens du genre Thrombicula a Oubangui-Chari (A. E. F.). Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales 44: 545 - 549.

Le Gac P. 1952 a. Contribution a l'etude des acariens des genres Trombicula, Schongastia et Schongastiella recueillis sur les rongeurs de l'Oubangui-Chari (A. E. F.). Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales 45: 747 - 749.

Le Gac P. 1952 b. Presence de Thrombicula sicei, Marc Andre 1950, sur les oiseaux pieteurs de l'Oubangui-Chari: Gallus domesticus, Numida meleagris et Ptilopachus petrosus. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales 45: 477 - 479.

Taufflieb R. & Mouchet J. 1959. Revue des Trombiculidae du Cameroun et description de huit especes et sous-especes nouvelles. Acarologia 1 (2): 228 - 245.

Taufflieb R. 1965 a. Contribution a l'etude des Trombiculidae (Acarina) d'Angola. Publicacoes culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 4095: 21 - 36.

Taufflieb R., Chippaux A. & Rickenbach A. 1967. Contribution a l'etude des ectoparasites de Vertebres en Republique Centrafricaine. Cahiers ORSTOM, serie Entomologie medicale et Parasitologie 5 (2): 115 - 125.

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1965 a. Revision of the genera: Eltonella Audy, 1956 and Microtrombicula Ewing, 1950, with descriptions of fifty new species and transferal of subgenus Chiroptella to genus Leptotrombidium (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acarologia 7 (suppl.): 34 - 257.

Wharton G. W. & Fuller H. S. 1952. A manual of the chiggers. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 1 - 185.

Zumpt F. (ed.) 1961. The arthropod parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Region). Vol. 1: Chelicerata. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research 11 (50): 1 - 457.

Abbreviations

MNHN	France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
MNHN	Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
SuperOrder	Acariformes
Order	Trombidiformes
Family	Trombiculidae
SubFamily	Trombiculinae
Tribe	Trombiculini
Genus	Microtrombicula