Schoutedenichia (Schoutedenichia) paradoxa

• Main Author: Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Prostigmata; Trombiculidae; Schoutedenichia; Schoutedenichia paradoxa; Triton; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3849598; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3849598

Schoutedenichia (Schoutedenichia) paradoxa (Jadin, Vercammen-Grandjean & Herman, 1954) Euschoengastia paradoxa Jadin et al., 1954a: 273. Schoutedenichia (Nasichia) paradoxa paradoxa – Vercammen-Grandjean 1958a: 79, figs 40–42. Schoutedenichia (Nasichia) paradoxa – Zumpt 1961: 166, fig. 96e–f. — Vercammen-Grandjean 1975: 410, fig. D. Schoutedenichia (Schoutedenichia) paradoxa – Vercammen-Grandjean 1965c: 102. Holotype RMCA 80509. Material revised Holotype and 30 paratypes from RMCA, including 11 nymphs. Distribution DR Congo (Bukavu, Kabunga, Kindu, Lwiro, Mbandaka). Hosts Arvicanthis abyssinicus (original data), A. niloticus (Zumpt 1961), Crocidura sp., Dasymys incomtus, Dendromus mesomelas, Felis catus, Grammomys dryas (original data), G. dolichurus (Zumpt 1961), Graphiurus sp., Lemniscomys striatus, L. griselda, Lophuromys aquilus (original data), L. flavopunctatus (Zumpt 1961), Mastomys coucha, Mus triton, Oenomys hypoxanthus, Otomys irroratus, Pelomys fallax, Rattus rattus. Remarks The deutonymph was described (Jadin et al. 1954a; Vercammen-Grandjean 1958a). Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2018, Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), pp. 1-233 in European Journal of Taxonomy 395 on pages 109-110, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2018.395, http://zenodo.org/record/3829724