Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris ( Walch, 1922 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4913 (1), pp. 1-163 : 103

Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris ( Walch, 1922)

Trombicula acuscutellaris Walch, 1922: 564 , figs. 22–25; Gater 1932: 148; Fuller 1952: 80; Gunther 1952: 17.

Trombicula (Pentagonella) acuscutellaris: Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 78 , pl. II (5).

Pentagonella acuscutellaris: Thor & Willmann 1947: 296 .

Tragardhula acuscutellaris: Womersley 1952: 24 , pl. 1 (A–D); Radford 1954: 262; Womersley & Audy 1957: 266; Chen & Hsu 1958a: 413.

Trombicula (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 43 .

Blankaartia (Tragardhula) acuscutellaris: Audy 1957: 245 .

Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 22 ; 1968b: 62; Kudryashova 1983: 151, figs. on p. 152; Wen 1984b: 316; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 73, fig. 18.

Blankaartia acuscutellaris: Lakshana 1973: 12 ; Brown 1992: 291; Li et al. 1997: 289, fig. 2-12-2; Kudryashova 1998: 162, fig. 124; Ripka & Stekolnikov 2006: 147; Chau et al. 2007: 85, fig. 40; Chaisiri et al. 2016: 323; Antonovskaia et al. 2017: 39; Mąkol & Korniluk 2017: 555; Stekolnikov 2018: 126 ; 2019: 50.

Type deposition. Possibly in KWI ( Fuller 1952) .

Type data. Ex rat, Sumatra, Deli ( Indonesia, North Sumatra Province, Deli Serdang Regency) .

Hosts. RODENTIA : Arvicola terrestris , Bandicota bengalensis , B. indica , Golunda ellioti , Microtus arvalis , Mus musculus , M. musculus bactrianus , Ondatra zibethicus , Rattus andamanensis , R. argentiventer , R. losea , R. norvegicus , R. tanezumi , R. rattus ; CARNIVORA : Herpestes javanicus , Nyctereutes procyonoides ; PRIMATES : Homo sapiens ; AFROSORICIDA : Potamogale velox ; CHIROPTERA : Pteropus vampyrus ; SQUAMATA : Rhampholeon boulengeri , R. spectrum ; AVES: Amaurornis phoenicurus chinensis , Ardea purpurea , A. purpurea manilensis , Calidris pugnax , Centropus monachus , C. senegalensis , C. superciliosus , Corvus cornix , Gallinago media , G. stenura , Gallus gallus domesticus , Ixobrychus cinnamomeus , I. eurhythmus , I. minutus , I. sinensis , Laniarius sp., Philentoma pyrhoptera , Quelea quelea , Rallus aquaticus , Sturnus vulgaris .

Distribution. AFRICA: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania; ASIA: Azerbaijan, Burma, Ceylon, China, Guam, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Maldive Islands, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; EUROPE: Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Spain, Ukraine.

Remarks. The following nomina nuda created by Vercammen-Grandjean for the samples from African countries are also synonyms of B. acuscutellaris : Blankaartia (Blankaartia) arusha (nomen nudum), B. (B.) cuculidaea (nomen nudum), B. (B.) ixobrychus (nomen nudum), B. (B.) maji (nomen nudum), and B. (B.) rhampholeonis (nomen nudum) (Stekolnikov 2019).