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- Title
A new genus and two new species of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from the Laotian rock-rat Laonastes aenigmamus Jenkins, Kilpatrick, Robinson & Timmins (Rodentia: Diatomyidae).
- Authors
Stekolnikov, Alexandr
- Abstract
A new chigger mite genus Laotrombicula n. g. and two new species, Laotrombicula khunboromi n. sp. (type-species) and L. fangumi n. sp., are described from the Laotian rock-rat Laonastes aenigmamus Jenkins, Kilpatrick, Robinson & Timmins (Rodentia: Diatomyidae). The new genus is most similar to Trombiculindus Radford, 1948 and Leptotrombidium Nagayo, Miyagawa, Mitamura & Imamura, 1916 and differs from these genera by having the scutum of subhexagonal or semicircular shape vs widely rectangular; pinnatifid dorsocentral idiosomal setae vs foliaceous in Trombiculindus and unexpanded in Leptotrombidium; and by the presence of serrated longitudinal crests in the middle part of scutum.
- Subjects
TROMBICULIDAE; MAMMAL parasites; RODENTS; LEPTOTROMBIDIUM; MITES; PARASITOLOGY
- Publication
Systematic Parasitology, 2014, Vol 87, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0165-5752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11230-013-9453-4