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Proschoengastia Vercammen-Grandjean 1967

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Genus Proschoengastia Vercammen-Grandjean, 1967

Schoengastia (Proschoengastia) Vercammen-Grandjean, 1967: 130.

Type species: Euschoengastia herniosa Brennan and Jones, 1961, by original designation.

Species included. Proschoengastia herniosa (Brennan and Jones, 1961), Proschoengastia insolita (Brennan and Jones, 1961), Proschoengastia macrochaeta (Brennan and Jones, 1961) comb. nov., Proschoengastia antarctica sp. nov.

Hosts. Phyllotis osilae J.A. Allen, Neotomys ebriosus Thomas (Rodentia: Cricetidae), Lagidium peruanum Meyen (Rodentia: Chinchillidae). New host: Neovison vison (Schreber) (Carnivora: Mustelidae).

Distribution. Peru. Recorded in Chile, Region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena, Antártica Chilena Province, for the first time.

Remarks. Trombicula macrochaeta Brennan and Jones, 1961 was described by 3 specimens (holotype and 2 paratypes) with broken sensilla. This defect resulted in erroneous identification of the tribe this species belongs to. Vercammen-Grandjean (1965a) placed it in the species group kallipygos within the genus Guntherana Womersley and Heaslip, 1943, implying that this species should have expanded sensilla, as all members of Schoengastiini. Thorough examination of the description led us to the conclusion that this species undoubtedly belongs to the genus Proschoengastia.

Notes

Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A. & González-Acuña, Daniel, 2015, A review of Chilean chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae), with the description of a new genus and ten new species, pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 3964 (1) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288680

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D41287FEFF90FF9149FDF928FE2BFE59

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/288680 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/282BFF86FF8AFF8A496AFFEEFF8AFFAD (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/89AB5228-8F33-478D-98BC-DAF2C6CE8026 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/D41287FEFF90FF9149FDF928FE2BFE59 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/127691838 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/36666/taxon/D41287FEFF90FF9149FDF928FE2BFE59.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Trombiculidae
Genus
Proschoengastia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Vercammen-Grandjean
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Proschoengastia Vercammen-Grandjean, 1967 sec. Stekolnikov & González-Acuña, 2015

References

  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1967) Notes on the Trombiculidae. Acarologia, 9, 127 - 134.
  • Brennan, J. M. & Jones, E. K. (1961) Chiggers of Peru (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Acarologia, 3, 172 - 205.
  • Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1965 a) Trombiculinae of the World: synopsis with generic, subgeneric, and group diagnoses (Acarina, Trombiculidae). George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 191 pp.
  • Womersley, H. & Heaslip, W. G. (1943) The Trombiculinae (Acarina) or itch-mites of the Austro-Malayan and Oriental Regions. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 67, 68 - 142.