Trombigastia scapularia Vercammen-Grandjean & Fain, 1958

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 120-121

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scientific name	Trombigastia scapularia Vercammen-Grandjean & Fain, 1958
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Treatment

Trombigastia scapularia Vercammen-Grandjean & Fain, 1958 View in CoL

Trombigastia (Scapularia) scapularia Vercammen-Grandjean & Fain, 1958: 14 View in CoL , pls 8–9.

Trombigastia (Scapularia) scapularia View in CoL – Zumpt 1961: 143.

Riedlinia (Riedlinia) scapularia – Vercammen-Grandjean 1964c: 318; 1965c: 129.

Holotype

RMCA 92902 View Materials .

Material revised

Holotype and 65 more specimens from RMCA labeled as “ Euschoengastia scapularia ”, of which only one is designated as paratype.

Distribution

DR Congo (Irangi, colline Mabondo).

Hosts

Hipposideros caffer ( Zumpt 1961) , H. ruber ruber (original data).

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. & Fain A. 1958. Les Trombiculidae parasites de Chiropteres. Revision du genre Trombigastia, description d'un? Myotrombicula. Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparee 33 (1 - 2): 5 - 35.

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1964 c. Le genre Trombigastia Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan est un synonyme de Riedlinia Oudemans 1914. Revision du genre Riedlinia (Acarina - Trombiculidae). Acarologia 6 (2): 312 - 323.

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

RMCA	Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
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	Trombigastia