Microtrombicula spicea

• Main Author: Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Prostigmata; Trombiculidae; Microtrombicula; Microtrombicula spicea; Fuller; Wharton; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4461981; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4461981

Microtrombicula spicea (Gater, 1932) Trombicula spicea Gater, 1932: 151, fig. 2; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 78, pl. II (4); Gunther 1952: 18. Trombicula (Eutrombicula) spicea: Thor & Willmann 1947: 288, fig. 345. Trombicula (Trombicula) spicea: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 70; Womersley & Audy 1957: 258; Audy 1957: 234. Trombicula (Neotrombicula) spicea: Womersley 1952: 107, pl. 17 (G–I) (larva), 360, pl. 96 (G–L) (nymph). Neotrombicula spicea: Radford 1954: 259, fig. 33. Microtrombicula (Scapuscutala) spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965a: 120, pl. HH (8–10) (larva), AX (8–14) (nymph). Microtrombicula spicea: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 46; 1968b: 70; Lakshana 1973: 14. Microtrombicula (Microtrombicula) spicea: Wen 1984b: 315; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 244, fig. 77. Type deposition. BMNH 1932.7.18.6. Type data. Ex Lenothrix canus (syn. Rattus malaisia), Malaysia, Selangor State, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. Hosts. RODENTIA: Callosciurus erythraeus, Hadromys humei, Hylopetes phayrei, Lenothrix canus, Maxomys surifer, Menetes berdmorei, Rattus rattus, R. tanezumi, Sundamys muelleri; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia glis; SORICOMORPHA: Suncus murinus. Distribution. Ceylon, China, India, Malaysia, Thailand. Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, pp. 1-163 in Zootaxa 4913 (1) on pages 135-136, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915