Microtrombicula ugandae ( Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957 ) Stekolnikov, 2018

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 395, pp. 1-233 : 174

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.395

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A244F97F-8CEB-40CE-A182-7E5440337CAA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3848847

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scientific name

Microtrombicula ugandae ( Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957 )
status

comb. nov.

Microtrombicula ugandae ( Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957) comb. nov.

Trombicula ugandae Vercammen-Grandjean & Brennan, 1957: 484 , figs 1A–B, F, 2A–B, E.

Trombicula ugandae – Audy & Vercammen-Grandjean 1961a: 131. — Zumpt 1961: 138, fig. 82d–e. Eltonella (Eltonella) ugandae ugandae – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 68, pls L–O; 1965c: 43.

Holotype

Private collection of Vercammen-Grandjean (original data), RMCA (Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a) (? – not found).

Distribution

Uganda (Entebbe), DR Congo (Shabunda, Luvungi, Bukavu).

Hosts

Canis lupus familiaris (type host), Centropus grillii , Oenomys hypoxanthus , Otomys tropicalis , Pelomys fallax .

Remarks

Described from a single specimen.

Audy J. R. & Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. 1961 a. African Trombiculidae (Acarina). 1. An interim note on the genus Trombicula Berlese and the subgenus Microtrombicula Ewing. Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (12): 125 - 133. Available from https: // hdl. handle. net / 10520 / AJA 03040798 _ 814 [accessed 4 December 2017].

Vercammen-Grandjean P. H. & Brennan J. M. 1957. Eight new chiggers from East Africa and a new genus, Trombigastia (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50 (5): 484 - 496. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 50.5.484

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.

RMCA

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Prostigmata

Family

Trombiculidae

SubFamily

Trombiculinae

Tribe

Trombiculini

Genus

Microtrombicula