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Issue: Vol. 5406 No. 2: 5 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.7
Page range: 343-358
Abstract views: 176
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New species and new records of chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae) from Cambodia

Lomonosov Moscow State University; Moscow 119991; Russia; Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Universitetskaya embankment 1; Saint Petersburg 199034; Russia
IRL HealthDEEP; CNRS – Kasetsart University – Mahidol University; Faculty of Veterinary Technology; Kasetsart University; 10900; Bangkok; Thailand
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Universitetskaya embankment 1; Saint Petersburg 199034; Russia
Acari chiggers Southeast Asia Leptotrombidium Walchia taxonomy parasites of rodents

Abstract

Two new chigger species, Leptotrombidium mondulkiri sp. nov. and Walchia keoseima sp. nov., and one new subspecies, Leptotrombidium pilosum cambodiensis subsp. nov., are described from Cambodia. Three species, Walchia lupella (Traub and Evans, 1957), W. micropelta (Traub and Evans, 1957), and W. kritochaeta (Traub and Evans, 1957), are for the first time reported from the country. A redescription of W. lupella is given based on new materials from Cambodia and Thailand.

 

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