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Walchia (Walchia) morobensis Gunther, 1939

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4913 (1), pp. 1-163 : 68-69

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scientific name

 Walchia (Walchia) morobensis Gunther, 1939
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Walchia (Walchia) morobensis Gunther, 1939 View in CoL

Walchia morobensis Gunther, 1939: 94 View in CoL , figs. 32, 39; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 135, pl. XII (2); Gunther 1952: 45; Wharton & Fuller 1952: 92; Radford 1954: 270.

Gahrliepia (Walchia) morobensis: Womersley 1952: 285 , pl. 76 (A–C); Audy 1957: 280; Womersley & Audy 1957: 287; Nadchatram 1970a: 6, figs. 2-9; Goff 1979: 334.

Gahrliepia morobensis: Domrow & Lester 1985: 61 , fig. 217.

Type deposition. CIH .

Type data. Ex Rattus exulans (syn. Rattus browni ) and Rattus leucopus (syn. Rattus ringens ), New Guinea ( Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province), Bulolo.

Hosts. RODENTIA : Bandicota bengalensis , Hydromys chrysogaster , Leptomys elegans , Melomys cervinipes , Paraleptomys wilhelmina , Paramelomys levipes , P. moncktoni , P. platyops , Pogonomelomys sp., Rattus exulans , R. fuscipes , R. leucopus , R. niobe , R. nitidus , R. rattus , R. sordidus , R. tanezumi , Uromys caudimaculatus ; PERAMELEMORPHIA: Isoodon macrourus .

Distribution. Australia, Burma, Papua New Guinea.

Remarks. The description of the material from Burma ( Womersley 1952) is different from the description of the type series provided by Womersley & Heaslip (1943); thus, the record of W. morobensis in Burma (and Southeast Asia in general) could be a result of misidentification ( Nadchatram 1970a).

Domrow, R. & Lester, L. N. (1985) Chiggers of Australia (Acari: Trombiculidae): an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 114, 1 - 111. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 114

Goff, M. L. (1979) Host exploitation by chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae) infesting Papua New Guinea land mammals. Pacific Insects, 20, 321 - 353.

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.

Nadchatram, M. (1970 a) A review of intranasal chiggers with descriptions of twelve species from East New Guinea (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 7, 1 - 29. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 7.1.1

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

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.

Womersley, H. (1952) The scrub-typhus and scrub-itch mites (Trombiculidae, Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific region. Records of the South Australian Museum, 10, 1 - 435.

Womersley, H. & Audy, J. R. (1957) Malaysian Parasites-XXVII. The Trombiculidae (Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific Region: A revised and annotated list of the species in Womersley, 1952, with descriptions of larvae and nymphs. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, 28, 231 - 296.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Trombiculidae

SubFamily

Gahrliepiinae

Genus

Walchia

SubGenus

Walchia

Specimens