Schoengastia vandersandei

• Main Author: Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Prostigmata; Trombiculidae; Schoengastia; Schoengastia vandersandei; Fuller; Wharton; Goff; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4468577; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4468577

Schoengastia vandersandei (Oudemans, 1905) Thrombidium vandersandei Oudemans 1905: 216. Schoengastia vandersandei: Oudemans 1910: 86; Thor & Willmann 1947: 299, fig. 354; Fuller 1952: 155, fig. 3; Gunther 1952: 23; Wharton & Fuller 1952: 87; Radford 1954: 267; Audy 1957: 250; Womersley & Audy 1957: 271; Goff 1979: 332. Schoengastia (Schoengastia) vandersandei: Womersley 1952: 155, pl. 32 (F–J); Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 81; 1968b: 88; Nadchatram et al. 1980: 272, figs. 9–16. Schoengastia blestowei Gunther, 1939: 92, figs. 31, 34, 37; Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 103; Gunther 1952: 24; Radford 1954: 266; Womersley & Audy 1957: 269; Audy 1957: 249. Schoengastia (Schoengastia) blestowei: Womersley 1952: 165, pl. 36 (A–E); Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 81. Schoengastia blestowei var. megapodius Womersley and Heaslip, 1943: 104; Radford 1954: 266. Type deposition. T. vandersandei: RMNH (lectotype; Fuller 1952), S. blestowei: CIH; S. blestowei var. megapodius: CIH. Type data. T. vandersandei: ex man, Dutch New Guinea (Indonesia, West Papua Province); S. blestowe i: ex man, Papua New Guinea, Sepik District, Suein River; S. blestowei var. megapodius: ex Megapodius reinwardt (syn. Megapodius duperreyi), Papua New Guinea, Sepik District, Suein River. Hosts. RODENTIA: Rattus exulans, R. leucopus, R. sordidus; SCANDENTIA: Tupaia glis; CARNIVORA: Canis lupus familiaris, Felis catus; PERAMELEMORPHIA: Echymipera kalubu; PRIMATES: Homo sapiens; AVES: Megapodius reinwardt. Distribution. Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands. Remarks. Schoengastia yeomansi Gunther, 1938 (nomen nudum) was properly described as S. blestowei Gunther, 1939; this species should not be mixed with Neoschoengastia yeomansi Gunther, 1939 (syn. Neoschoengastia jamesi Gunther, 1938, nomen nudum). 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 page 95, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, ...