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Four new species of ‘harvest mite’ or ‘chigger’ and a new fur-mite (Acarina: Trombiculidae and Listrophoridae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Charles D. Radford
Affiliation:
Membre Correspondant, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Extract

From the Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, the author received a number of tubes containing mites collected from small mammals in the course of yellow fever investigations. One of the tubes with mites taken from a hyrax (Procavia ahyssinica meneliki Neumann) contained two new species of larval Trombiculidae which are described in this paper under the names Schöngastia haddowi sp.n. and Eutrombicula lumsdeni n.sp. in honour of the donors, Drs A. J. Haddow and Russell M. Lumsden.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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