Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris (Walch 1922)
- Dataset
- A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Prostigmata
- family
- Trombiculidae
- genus
- Blankaartia
- species
- Blankaartia acuscutellaris
materials_examined
Type deposition. Possibly in KWI (Fuller 1952). Type data. Ex rat, Sumatra, Deli (Indonesia, North Sumatra Province, Deli Serdang Regency). Hosts. RODENTIA: Arvicola terrestris, Bandicota bengalensis, B. indica, Golunda ellioti, Microtus arvalis, Mus musculus, M. musculus bactrianus, Ondatra zibethicus, Rattus andamanensis, R. argentiventer, R. losea, R. norvegicus, R. tanezumi, R. rattus; CARNIVORA: Herpestes javanicus, Nyctereutes procyonoides; PRIMATES: Homo sapiens; AFROSORICIDA: Potamogale velox; CHIROPTERA: Pteropus vampyrus; SQUAMATA: Rhampholeon boulengeri, R. spectrum; AVES: Amaurornis phoenicurus chinensis, Ardea purpurea, A. purpurea manilensis, Calidris pugnax, Centropus monachus, C. senegalensis, C. superciliosus, Corvus cornix, Gallinago media, G. stenura, Gallus gallus domesticus, Ixobrychus cinnamomeus, I. eurhythmus, I. minutus, I. sinensis, Laniarius sp., Philentoma pyrhoptera, Quelea quelea, Rallus aquaticus, Sturnus vulgaris. Distribution. AFRICA: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania; ASIA: Azerbaijan, Burma, Ceylon, China, Guam, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Maldive Islands, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; EUROPE: Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Spain, Ukraine. Remarks. The following nomina nuda created by Vercammen-Grandjean for the samples from African countries are also synonyms of B. acuscutellaris: Blankaartia (Blankaartia) arusha (nomen nudum), B. (B.) cuculidaea (nomen nudum), B. (B.) ixobrychus (nomen nudum), B. (B.) maji (nomen nudum), and B. (B.) rhampholeonis (nomen nudum) (Stekolnikov 2019).