A New Genus and Species of Chiggers (Trombidiformes: Leeuwenhoekiidae) From Peru

Ricardo Bassini-Silva; Matheus Huang-Bastos; Barry M. OConnor; Pavel Klimov; Cal Welbourn; Ron Ochoa; Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti; Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius

doi:10.1093/jme/tjab010

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10 February 2021 A New Genus and Species of Chiggers (Trombidiformes: Leeuwenhoekiidae) From Peru

Ricardo Bassini-Silva, Matheus Huang-Bastos, Barry M. OConnor, Pavel Klimov, Cal Welbourn, Ron Ochoa, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius

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J. of Medical Entomology, 58(3):1166-1170 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab010

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South American chiggers have historically been poorly studied, and this has continued into present times. Of the 33 genera in the family Leeuwenhoekiidae Womersley, only Odontacarus Ewing and Sasacarus Brennan & Jones have been reported in Peru. Here, we describe a new genus, Peruacarus n. gen., and a new species, Peruacarus anthurium n. sp., parasitizing Koford's grass mouse, Akodon kofordi Myers & Patton, in Peru.

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Ricardo Bassini-Silva, Matheus Huang-Bastos, Barry M. OConnor, Pavel Klimov, Cal Welbourn, Ron Ochoa, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, and Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius "A New Genus and Species of Chiggers (Trombidiformes: Leeuwenhoekiidae) From Peru," Journal of Medical Entomology 58(3), 1166-1170, (10 February 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab010

Received: 2 November 2020; Accepted: 9 December 2020; Published: 10 February 2021

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