A New Genus and Species of Chiggers (Trombidiformes: Leeuwenhoekiidae) From Peru.


Journal

Journal of medical entomology
ISSN: 1938-2928
Titre abrégé: J Med Entomol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0375400

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
15 05 2021
Historique:
received: 02 11 2020
pubmed: 11 2 2021
medline: 17 11 2021
entrez: 10 2 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

South American chiggers have historically been poorly studied, and this has continued into present times. Of the 33 genera in the family Leeuwenhoekiidae Womersley, only Odontacarus Ewing and Sasacarus Brennan & Jones have been reported in Peru. Here, we describe a new genus, Peruacarus n. gen., and a new species, Peruacarus anthurium n. sp., parasitizing Koford's grass mouse, Akodon kofordi Myers & Patton, in Peru.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33565596
pii: 6131420
doi: 10.1093/jme/tjab010
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1166-1170

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

Auteurs

Ricardo Bassini-Silva (R)

Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo-FMVZ-USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Matheus Huang-Bastos (M)

Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo-FMVZ-USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Barry M OConnor (BM)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Pavel Klimov (P)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Cal Welbourn (C)

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Ron Ochoa (R)

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA.

Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti (DM)

Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo-FMVZ-USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias-UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil.

Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius (F)

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

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