Two new species and new records of chiggers (Acari: Leeuwenhoekiidae, Trombiculidae) from birds in Vietnam
Kaluz, Stanislav
Hung, Nguyen Manh
Capek, Miroslav
Literak, Ivan
Zootaxa
2016
4061
5
483
503
Vercammen-Grandjean and Langston, 1976
Vercammen-Grandjean and Langston
1976
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Arachnida
Trombiculidae
Leptotrombidium
GBIF
Animalia
Prostigmata
8
491
Arthropoda
species
turdicola
Material examined.Location A: 1 larva from Pellorneum ruficeps( Passeriformes: Pellorneidae), 4 February 2010.
Distribution and hosts. Leptotrombidium turdicolais known from Turdus obscurusGmelin( Passeriformes: Turdidae) in Malaysia( Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976) and from Apodemus agrarius( Rodentia: Muridae) in China( Stekolnikov 2013). We found L. turdicolain Vietnamfor the first time. Pellorneum ruficepsis a new host for this chigger.