Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris
Creators: name: Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Trombiculidae
Blankaartia
Blankaartia acuscutellaris

description: Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris (Walch, 1922)
Trombicula acuscutellaris Walch, 1922: 564, figs. 22–25; Gater 1932: 148; Fuller 1952: 80; Gunther 1952: 17.
Trombicula (Pentagonella) acuscutellaris: Womersley & Heaslip 1943: 78, pl. II (5).
Pentagonella acuscutellaris: Thor & Willmann 1947: 296.
Tragardhula acuscutellaris: Womersley 1952: 24, pl. 1 (A–D); Radford 1954: 262; Womersley & Audy 1957: 266; Chen & Hsu 1958a: 413.
Trombicula (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris: Wharton & Fuller 1952: 43.
Blankaartia (Tragardhula) acuscutellaris: Audy 1957: 245.
Blankaartia (Blankaartia) acuscutellaris: Vercammen-Grandjean 1965b: 22; 1968b: 62; Kudryashova 1983: 151, figs. on p. 152; Wen 1984b: 316; Fernandes & Kulkarni 2003: 73, fig. 18.
Blankaartia acuscutellaris: Lakshana 1973: 12; Brown 1992: 291; Li et al. 1997: 289, fig. 2-12-2; Kudryashova 1998: 162, fig. 124; Ripka & Stekolnikov 2006: 147; Chau et al. 2007: 85, fig. 40; Chaisiri et al. 2016: 323; Antonovskaia et al. 2017: 39; Mąkol & Korniluk 2017: 555; Stekolnikov 2018: 126; 2019: 50.
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).
description: Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, pp. 1-163 in Zootaxa 4913 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915