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On Two New Parasitic Acari of the Genus Leiognathus, Cn. (Gamasidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

S. Hirst
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Most of the species of Leiognathus are parasitic on small mammals (bats, rodents, etc.), others occur on birds and a few also on reptiles. A number of the species of this genus have been described under the name Liponyssus, butpersonally I do not think that Liponyssus setosus, Kolenati (the type and first described species of the genus Liponyssus) falls into the same natural genus as the species described by recent authors under that generic name or under the name Leiognathus. On the other hand, Kolenati's genera Ischoronyssus, Macronyssus, Lepronyssus, Steatonyssus and Pimelonyssus certainly seem to me to be congeneric with Leiognathus, Cn., and ultimately one of these names will have to replace Canestrini's.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1912 , pp. 369 - 372
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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* It is interesting to note that this is not the only case in which mites of this genus have attacked human beings. Mr. Nathan Banks has described and figured a species (under the name Liponyssus americanus) which he states was found on the arm of a person at Washington, D.C. Mr. G. A. K. Marshall has kindly lent me for examination some specimens of another species of Leiognathus found by Dr. W. M. Aders on human beings at Zanzibar. This species was received too late for incorporation in the present note, and I hope to deal with it in a subsequent paper on Acari.