Blankaartia acuscutellaris (Walch, 1922) (Actinotrichida: Trombiculidae) collected from the great snipe Gallinago media (Latham, 1787) (Charadriformes: Scolopacidae) in Poland – new host and country record for chigger mite genus and species

• Published in: Acarologia
• Main Authors: Mąkol, Joanna, Korniluk, Michał
• Other Authors: Department of Invertebrate Systematics and Ecology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences = Académie polonaise des sciences (PAN)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: Trombiculidae; Parasitengona; parasite; avian hosts; distribution; Europe; [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics; Phylogenetics and taxonomy; [SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology; Gallinago media; great snipe; Mite
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01522052; https://hal.science/hal-01522052/document; https://hal.science/hal-01522052/file/Acarologia-2017-57-555-562.pdf; https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20174180

International audience The parasitic chigger mite, Blankaartia acuscutellaris, collected from a female of Gallinago media is recorded from Poland for the first time. The locality, which constitutes the northernmost record of B. acuscutellaris in the Palaearctic, raises the question of possibility of establishing a new population on the verges of the species’ distribution range. Metric data for larvae, extending the knowledge of intra-specific variation, are provided.