Schoengastia gigantica Vercammen-Grandjean, 1958

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 79

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scientific name	Schoengastia gigantica Vercammen-Grandjean, 1958
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Schoengastia gigantica Vercammen-Grandjean, 1958 View in CoL

Schoengastia gigantica Vercammen-Grandjean, 1958b: 640 View in CoL , pls 4, 8.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) gigantica View in CoL – Zumpt 1961: 155. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 81. — Goff 1989: 109.

Holotype

USNM ( Goff 1989) (? see below).

Material revised

One specimen (No. 113888 , not suitable for examination) designated as “ typus ” and one specimen (No. 113887 ) designated as “ type ” and ringed by red lacquer, from RMCA .

Distribution

DR Congo (Lubero).

Hosts

Arvicanthis abyssinicus (original data), A. niloticus ( Zumpt 1961) , Lemniscomys striatus , Otomys tropicalis (original data), O. irroratus ( Zumpt 1961) .

Goff M. L. 1989. Catalog of types in the National Chigger collection of the U. S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Acari: Trombiculidae). Bulletin of the Society for Vector Ecology 14 (1): 95 - 134.

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. 1958 b. Revue des Schoengastia centrafricains et remaniements divers de cet important genre (Acarina - Trombiculidae). Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparee 33 (5 - 6): 619 - 670.

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.

Abbreviations

USNM	USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]
RMCA	Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
RMCA	Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Taxonomy

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