Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris ( Walch, 1922 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 126

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scientific name	Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris ( Walch, 1922 )
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Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris ( Walch, 1922) View in CoL

Trombicula acuscutellaris Walch, 1922: 564 , figs 22–25.

Trombicula acuscutellaris – Fuller 1952: 80.

Trombicula (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris – Wharton & Fuller 1952: 43.

Blankaartia acuscutellaris View in CoL – Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 233. — Zumpt 1961: 151. — Taufflieb 1969: 284. — Kudryashova 1998: 162, fig. 124.

Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris View in CoL – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 22.

Holotype

No data ( Fuller 1952).

Distribution

Cameroon (Yaoundé, Ngaoundéré), Central African Republic (Soulemaka), Congo (Djoue River, Méya, Pointe-Noire). This species was described from Sumatra and later recorded from many Asian and European countries ( Fuller 1952; Kudryashova 1983; Ripka & Stekolnikov 2006).

Hosts

Centropus senegalensis , Ixobrychus minutus, Laniarius sp., Philomachus pugnax , Potamogale velox .

References

Fuller H. S. 1952. The mite-larvae of the family Trombiculidae in the Oudemans collection: taxonomy and medical importance. Zoologische Verhandelingen 18: 1 - 261.

Kudryashova N. I. 1983. Revizija roda Blankaartia (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) fauny SSSR [A revision of the genus Blankaartia (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) from the fauna of the USSR]. Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University 20: 144 - 165.

Kudryashova N. I. 1998. Chigger Mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) of East Palaearctics. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow.

Ripka G. & Stekolnikov A. A. 2006. First finding of the chigger mite Blankaartia acuscutellaris (Acari Trombiculidae) on a human host in Europe. Belgian Journal of Entomology 8 (2): 147 - 151.

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. 1969. Blankaartia acuscutellaris (Acarina, Trombiculidae) et son extension au continent Africain. Acarologia 11 (2): 284 - 289.

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.

Walch E. 1922. Over Trombicula deliensis n. sp., vermoedelijke overbrengster der Pseudotyphus, en andere Trombiculae van Deli (Eerste Mededeeling). Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 62 (5): 530 - 588.

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.

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Taxonomy

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