TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - On the taxonomy of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) parasitizing birds in Thailand and Malaysia, with the description of a new species
VL  - 63
IS  - 4
SP  - 1109
EP  - 1138
PY  - 2023
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Koosakulnirand, Sirikamon
AU  - Rajasegaran, Praveena
AU  - Alkathiry, Hadil A.
AU  - Chaisiri, Kittipong
AU  - Round, Philip D.
AU  - Eiamampai, Krairat
AU  - Khusaini, Mohd K. S. Ahmad
AU  - Ramji, Mohamad Fizl Sidq
AU  - Abubakar, Sazaly
AU  - Ya’cob, Zubaidah
AU  - Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.
AU  - Makepeace, Benjamin L.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.24349/yt89-g1ei
DO  - 10.24349/yt89-g1ei
DA  - 2023-11-06
ET  - 2023-11-06
KW  - chiggers
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - parasites of birds
AB  - Chigger mites were collected from 65 bird species in different regions of Thailand and Malaysia. In total, 21 species were recorded. The previously unknown fauna of chiggers parasitizing shorebirds of Thailand included one new species, Neacariscus (Whartonacarus) andamanensis n. sp. as well as Neacariscus (Neacariscus) pluvius (Wharton, 1945) previously recorded only in Oceania; Neacariscus (Whartonacarus) shiraii (Sasa, Kano & Obata, 1952) (known from Oceania and Japan); and Neacariscus (Whartonacarus) sulae (Oudemans, 1910) and Schoengastia archaea (Taufflieb, 1960), both described from West Africa. Toritrombicula kirhocephales Goff, 1982 described from Papua New Guinea was for the first time recorded in Asia (Thailand). Neoschoengastia gallinarum (Hatori, 1920) and Helenicula comata (Womersley, 1952) were for the first time recorded in Thailand. Ascoschoengastia lorius (Gunther, 1939) was for the first time recorded in Malaysia. Finally, Ericotrombidium cosmetopode (Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston, 1971) described from free larvae, was for the first time recorded on a host (bird Pellorneum ruficeps Swainson); and Leptotrombidium miculum (Traub & Audy, 1954) was for the first time recorded on a bird host. New host species were recorded for a large part of the collected chigger species.
ER -