Fonsecia palmella Brennan & Loomis

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A., Ritzi, Christopher M., Beckham, Katy R., Super, Paul E & Oconnor, Barry M., 2007, Ectoparasites and other ectosymbiotic arthropods of vertebrates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Zootaxa 1392, pp. 31-68 : 59

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.273680

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6243971

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Fonsecia palmella Brennan & Loomis
status

 

Fonsecia palmella Brennan & Loomis

Ex Eumeces laticeps (broad­headed skink): Several L, TN, Sevier Co., Pittman Ctr., 8 Sep. 1997. G. D. Shultz. L­3030.

Larvae of F. palmella are ectoparasites of birds and occasionally reptiles and mammals (Reeves et al. 2004b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Prostigmata

Family

Trombiculidae

Genus

Fonsecia