Microtrombicula spicea ( Gater, 1932 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4913 (1), pp. 1-163 : 135-136

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Microtrombicula spicea ( Gater, 1932)

Trombicula spicea Gater, 1932: 151 , fig. 2; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 78, pl. II (4); Gunther 1952: 18. Trombicula (Eutrombicula) spicea: Thor & Willmann 1947: 288 , fig. 345.

Trombicula (Trombicula) spicea: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 70 ; Womersley & Audy 1957: 258; Audy 1957: 234. Trombicula (Neotrombicula) spicea: Womersley 1952: 107 , pl. 17 (G–I) (larva), 360, pl. 96 (G–L) (nymph). Neotrombicula spicea: Radford 1954: 259 , fig. 33.

Microtrombicula (Scapuscutala) spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 120 , pl. HH (8–10) (larva), AX (8–14) (nymph).

Microtrombicula spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 46 ; 1968b: 70; Lakshana 1973: 14.

Microtrombicula (Microtrombicula) spicea: Wen 1984b: 315 ; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 244, fig. 77.

Type deposition. BMNH 1932.7 .18.6.

Type data. Ex Lenothrix canus (syn. Rattus malaisia ), Malaysia, Selangor State, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.

Hosts. RODENTIA : Callosciurus erythraeus , Hadromys humei , Hylopetes phayrei , Lenothrix canus , Maxomys surifer , Menetes berdmorei , Rattus rattus , R. tanezumi , Sundamys muelleri ; SCANDENTIA : Tupaia glis ; SORICOMORPHA: Suncus murinus .

Distribution. Ceylon, China, India, Malaysia, Thailand.

References

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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.

Lakshana, P. (1973) A checklist of the trombiculid mites of Thailand (Prostigmata: Trombiculidae). US Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, 45 pp.

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. (1965 a) Revision of the genera: Eltonella Audy, 1956 and Microtrombicula Ewing, 1950, with descriptions of fifty new species and transferal of subgenus Chiroptella to genus Leptotrombidium (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acarologia, 7 (Supplement), 34 - 257.

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1965 b) Trombiculinae of the world. Synopsis with generic, subgeneric, and group diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California, 191 pp.

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.

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.