NEW DATA ON CHIGGER MITES OF THE SUBFAMILY LEEUWENHOEKIINAE (ACARI: TROMBICULIDAE) PARAZITIZING BATS IN CUBA

About authors:

Daniel M., School of Public Health, Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education, Ruská 85, 100 05 Prague 10, Czech Republic
Alexandr A. Stekolnikov,

 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: Alexandr.Stekolnikov@zin.ru

Annotation:

The genus Ischnothrombium Feider, 1983 is synonymized with Whartonia Ewing, 1944. Rede-scription of Whartonia diploctenum (Feider, 1983) comb.n. is given based on larvae collected in na-ture. A new species, Whartonia delacruzi sp.n. from bats is described. Wagenaaria similis Bren-nan, 1967 is reported from a new locality in Cuba; morphological data are provided

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