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Helenicula pilosa ( Abonnenc & Taufflieb, 1957 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 57-58

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.395

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A244F97F-8CEB-40CE-A182-7E5440337CAA

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3849288

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scientific name

 Helenicula pilosa ( Abonnenc & Taufflieb, 1957 )
status

 

Helenicula pilosa ( Abonnenc & Taufflieb, 1957) View in CoL

Euschoengastia (Helenicula) pilosa Abonnenc & Taufflieb, 1957a: 556 , figs 2–3.

Helenicula pilosa View in CoL – Zumpt 1961: 153. — Nadchatram & Traub 1971: 591.

Helenicula (Helenicula) pilosa View in CoL – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 112.

Holotype

MNHN.

Material examined

One paratype from RMCA (No. 86176 , in same box as Schoutedenichia pilosa Vercammen-Grandjean, 1958 ).

Distribution

Chad (Léré). This species was also recorded in Nepal from Rattus tanezumi Temminck, 1844 ( Nadchatram & Traub 1971) and in Thailand from Bandicota indica (Bechstein, 1800) ( Chaisiri et al. 2016) .

Host

Numida meleagris .

Taufflieb R. & Abonnenc E. 1957. Sur deux Trombiculides larvaires parasites du rat de Gambie: Euschoengastia mailloti n. sp. et Elianella anomaluri Vercammen-Grandjean, 1956. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique 50 (1): 80 - 85.

Abonnenc E. & Taufflieb R. 1957 a. Deux Trombiculides nouveaux de la region du Tchad, Euschoengastia pilosa n. sp. et Trombicula youhensis n. sp. Presence de Schoengastia radfordi Jadin et Vercammen- Grandjean, 1954. Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique 50 (4): 556 - 567.

Chaisiri K., Stekolnikov A. A., Makepeace B. L. & Morand S. 2016. A revised checklist of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Thailand, with the description of three new species. Journal of Medical Entomology 53 (2): 321 - 342. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jme / tjv 244

Nadchatram M. & Traub R. 1971. Chiggers of the genus Helenicula of the Old World including descriptions of 9 new species (Acarina: Prostigmata, Trombiculidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 8 (5): 562 - 597. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 8.5.562

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1958 a. Revision du genre Schoutedenichia Jad. et Verc. Annales du Musee royal du Congo belge, serie in- 8 65: 1 - 103.

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1965 c. Trombiculinae of the World. Synopsis with Generic, Subgeneric, and Group Diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco.

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.

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
RMCA

Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
RMCA

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Trombiculidae

SubFamily

Trombiculinae

Tribe

Schoengastiini

Genus

Helenicula

Specimens