Schoengastia radfordi Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1954

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Schoengastia radfordi Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1954

Schoengastia radfordi Jadin & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1954a: 198 , fig.

Schoengastia radfordi – Abonnenc & Taufflieb 1957a: 564, figs 5–6.

Schoengastia radfordi radfordi – Vercammen-Grandjean 1958b: 634, pls 1, 8. — Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959: 239.

Schoengastia (Schoengastia) radfordi – Zumpt 1961: 158. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 82.

Holotype

RMCA 76221 .

Material revised

Holotype and 14 paratypes from RMCA, including five nymphs.

Distribution

Rwanda (Butare, Musha), DR Congo (Beni, Bukavu, Matadi, Mushweshwe), Chad (Léré), Cameroon (Yaoundé).

Hosts

Aethomys bocagei ( Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959) , A. chrysophilus ( Zumpt 1961) , Arvicanthis abyssinicus (original data), A. niloticus ( Zumpt 1961) , Cricetomys emini ( Vercammen-Grandjean 1958b) , C. gambianus ( Zumpt 1961) , Crocidura sp., Dasymys incomtus , Lophuromys aquilus (Vercammen- Grandjean 1958b), L. flavopunctatus ( Zumpt 1961) , Mastomys coucha ( Taufflieb & Mouchet 1959) , M. natalensis ( Zumpt 1961) , Numida meleagris , Oenomys hypoxanthus , Otomys irroratus , Pelomys fallax , Pternistis bicalcaratus .