Odontacarus australiensis ( Hirst, 1925 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4913 (1), pp. 1-163 : 50

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Odontacarus australiensis ( Hirst, 1925)

Leeuwenhoekia australiensis Hirst, 1925: 150 , figs. 1–3; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 141, pl. XII (9); Thor & Willmann 1947: 323, fig. 384.

Leeuwenhoekia australiense: Gunther, 1939: 95 , figs. 35, 38, 40.

Acomatacarus australiensis: Gunther 1952: 39 ; Radford 1954: 268.

Acomatacarus (Acomatacarus) australiensis: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 97 .

Odontacarus (Leogonius) australiensis: Vercammen-Grandjean 1968b: 121 .

Odontacarus australiensis: Goff & Durden 1987: 211 .

Type deposition. BMNH 1927.1 .5.10 (lectotype) .

Type data. Ex man, Australia, Sydney, Ashfield .

Hosts. RODENTIA : Muridae gen. sp.; PRIMATES : Homo sapiens ; AVES: Ailuroedus melanocephalus , Casuarius casuarius , Chalcophaps stephani , Chlamydera cerviniventris , Colluricincla megarhyncha , Erythropitta macklotii , Pachycephala sp., Paradisaea minor , Pitohui kirhocephalus , Ptilorrhoa caerulescens , Tanysiptera galatea .

Distribution. Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

Remarks. According to the slide labels, the lectotype was designated by Vercammen-Grandjean in 1971; that act has not been published.

Goff, M. L. & Durden, L. A. (1987) A new species and new records of chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae) from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. International Journal of Acarology, 13, 209 - 211. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01647958708683769

Gunther, C. E. M. (1939) Trombidiid larvae in New Guinea (Acarina: Trombidiidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 64, 73 - 96.

Gunther, C. E. M. (1952) A check list of the trombiculid larvae of Asia and Australasia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 77, 1 - 60.

Hirst, S. (1925) On a harvest bug (Leeuwenhoekia australiensis, sp. n.) attacking human beings at Sidney, New South Wales. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygien e, 19, 150 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0035 - 9203 (26) 80005 - 7

Radford, C. D. (1954) The larval genera and species of harvest mites (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Parasitology, 44, 247 - 276. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000018898

Thor, S. & Willmann, C. (1947) Acarina. Trombidiidae. In: Schulze, F. E., K ʾ kenthal, W. & Heider, K. (Eds.), Das Tierreich. Vol. 71 b. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, pp. 187 - 544. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / 9783111625423

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1968 b) The chigger mites of the Far East (Acarina: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington, D. C., 135 pp.

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

Womersley, H. & Heaslip, W. G. (1943) The Trombiculinae (Acarina) or itch-mites of the Austro-Malayan and Oriental regions. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 67, 68 - 142.