TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - A new genus and species of bat chiggers (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) from Kenya VL - 62 IS - 2 SP - 418 EP - 425 PY - 2022 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - Stekolnikov, Alexandr A. UR - https://doi.org/10.24349/5n37-k5b9 DO - 10.24349/5n37-k5b9 DA - 2022-04-13 ET - 2022-04-13 KW - chiggers KW - parasites of bats KW - taxonomy KW - Africa AB - A new genus and species of chigger mites, Minteracarus mombasa n. gen., n. sp., has been described from the heart-nosed bat, Cardioderma cor (Peters) (Chiroptera: Megadermatidae) in Mombasa, Kenya. The description was based on the material identified as a new species of the genus Trombicula Berlese, 1905 by P.H. Vercammen-Grandjean, but remained undescribed until the present. ER -