Neotrombicula tragardhiana ( Feider, 1953 )

Stekolnikov, Alexandr & Daniel, Milan, 2012, 3216, Zootaxa 3216, pp. 1-104 : 65-66

Neotrombicula tragardhiana ( Feider, 1953)

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Trombicula (Neotrombicula) tragardhiana Feider, 1953: 775 , figs. 10–19.

Neotrombicula (Digenualea) traghardiana (sic), Kepka 1962: 277, figs. 1, 2.

Neotrombicula tragardhiana, Kudryashova 1979: 65 ; Kudryashova & Abou-Taka 1987: 622, fig. 4.

Neotrombicula (Polymasticula) tragardhiana, Kudryashova 1998: 229 , fig. 189.

Diagnosis. SIF = 7BS-N-3-2111.11(0)00; fPp = B/N/NNB; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.2; fSc: PL> AL> AM; Ip = 666–808; fD = 2H-6-6-4-2-4-2; DS = 20–28; VS = 16–25; NDV = 42–49. Standard measurements of specimens from Turkey are given in Table 22.

Type material deposition. The species was described from Valea Lui David Nature Reserve ( Romania: IaŞi County). Two syntypes were preserved in the private collection of M. Daniel; now they are deposited in ZISP. Place of other syntypes deposition is unknown .

Type material examined. Two larvae (ZISP) ex Lacerta agilis , ROMANIA: IaŞi County, Valea Lui David Nature Reserve , 47° 11' 48" N, 27° 28' 02" E, ca. 100 m a.s.l., 27 May 1951, coll. S. Vancea and I. Suciu.

Comparative material examined. Two larvae (ZMMU) ex Lacerta sp. , UKRAINE: Crimea, “Ptichye” (locality not found), 14 July 1949, coll. and det. E.G. Schluger; 5 larvae (ZISP) ex Eremias arguta , Donets’ka Prov., Vinogradnoye (47° 55' 13" N, 38° 13' 36" E), Azov Sea shore, 16 and 18 June 1984, coll. T.I. Kotenko; 26 larvae (ZISP) ex Apodemus (Sylvaemus) spp. and Microtus arvalis , RUSSIA: Dagestan, near Kirka (41° 32' 09" N, 48° 11' 13" E), 1000 m a.s.l., 25 and 26 June 1988, coll. A.B. Shatrov; 2 larvae ex Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sp. (identified in field as A. flavicollis ), ibidem, near Mazada (42° 11' 51" N, 46° 23' 30" E), 2000 m a.s.l., 11 July 1988, coll. A.B. Shatrov; 1 larva (ZISP) ex Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sp., Stavropolskiy Krai, Pyatigorsk, Mashuk Mt, 44° 03' 18" N, 43° 06' 13" E, 700 m a.s.l., 10 June 1996, coll. AAS; 4 larvae (ZISP) ex Microtus sp. (identified in field as M. kirgisorum ), UZBEKISTAN: 1.8 km W from Chimgan, 41° 32' 47" N, 70° 00' 03" E, 1700 m a.s.l., 8 July 1993, coll. AAS.

Material from Turkey examined. Two larvae (formerly in the private collection of M. Daniel; now deposited in ZISP) ex Crocidura russula , Balikesir Prov., KuŞ (Manyas) Lake , ca. 100 m a.s.l., 27 July 1960 , coll. O. Kepka; eight larvae (ZISP) ex Apodemus mystacinus and Mus musculus, GümüŞhane Prov., UğurtaŞı , 1750 m a.s.l., 12 June 1998, coll. AAS ; 10 larvae (ZISP) ex Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sp. (two specimens in theriological collection of ZISP, labelled as A. fulvipectus ), Erzurum Prov., southern slope of Mescit Range , 2100 m a.s.l., 18 June 1998, coll. AAS .

Hosts. Crocidura russula (Hermann) , Alticola roylei (Gray) , Microtus arvalis (Pallas) , M. majori Thomas , M. socialis (Pallas) , Apodemus sylvaticus (L.), Darevskia saxicola (Eversmann) , Lacerta agilis L., L. strigata Eichwald , Podarcis tauricus (Pallas) ( Kudryashova 1998) plus Microtus kirgisorum Ognev , Apodemus mystacinus (Danford and Alston) , Mus musculus L., and Eremias arguta (Pallas) .

Distribution. Romania, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. Previous record in Turkey: Manyas Lake ( Kepka 1962). This species is here recorded from Russia (Dagestan and Stavropolskiy Krai) and Uzbekistan for the first time.