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A new chigger mite Grandjeana kanuchi sp. n. collected from the bat Cardioderma cor (Peters, 1872) (Megadermatidae) in Ethiopia (North-East Africa) is described. Additional comments on hosts and distribution records of the chiggers of genus Grandjeana are provided. With the newly described species the genus Grandjeana includes 10 species, three of them are occurring in Africa and seven in South Asia. Present findings suggest that this genus has the geographic distribution in Ethiopian and Oriental regions with a strong association with selected families of Chiroptera.
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We are thankful to Peter Kaňuch (Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) and Josef Bryja (Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic) who provided the authors with the mites from Ethiopia, Prof. Ting-Huan Wen (Fudan University, Shanghai, China) for providing the names of type localities, Peter Petluš (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia) for his help in arrangement of the map and anonymous referees for their valuable advice and critical review of the manuscript.
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Kalúz, S., Ševčík, M. A new species of Grandjeana (Acari: Trombiculidae) from heart-nosed bat (Chiroptera: Megadermatidae) in Ethiopia (Africa) with notes to biogeography of this genus. Biologia 70, 380–385 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0043
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