A new species of Chiroptella Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 (Acari: Trombiculidae) from diadem leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros di
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A new species of Chiroptella Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 (Acari: Trombiculidae) from diadem leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros diadema (Geoffroy) (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) in Bali Island (Indonesia) with distribution records, hosts, and a key to the species of the genus Martin Sˇevcˇ´ık
. Stanislav Kalu´z . Petr Sˇra´mek
Received: 15 April 2020 / Accepted: 15 September 2020 Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract A new chigger mite Chiroptella baliensis n. sp. is described based on material from the diadem leafnosed bat Hipposideros diadema (Geoffroy) (Hipposideridae) in Bali Island (Lesser Sunda Islands, East Indonesia). With this newly described species, the genus Chiroptella includes 22 species, 13 in the subgenus Chiroptella Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 (sensu stricto), and 9 in the subgenus Neosomia VercammenGrandjean, 1968. Species of Chiroptella are distributed throughout the Ethiopian region, the Oriental region, and the Australian region (and only marginally
This article was registered in the Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature (ZooBank) as urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EAD58013-5774-4E11-BCD87325DCFA2C0C. This article was published as an Online First article on the online publication date shown on this page. The article should be cited by using the doi number. This is the Version of Record. This article is part of the Topical Collection Arthropoda. M. Sˇevcˇ´ık (&) Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Vinicˇna´ 7, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected] S. Kalu´z Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Du´bravska´ cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovak Republic P. Sˇra´mek Tusarova 1384/25, 170 00 Praha 7, Czech Republic
throughout the Palaearctic region) and are all associated with several families of bats. The paper also provides a key to all members of the genus and the new combinations for two species originally described as Chiroptella.
Introduction The genus Chiroptella Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 is one of the 19 genera of chigger mites known to parasitise bats (Yunker & Jones, 1961; Daniel & Stekol’nikov, 2003; Shatrov & Kudryashova, 2006; Kalu´z & Sˇevcˇ´ık, 2015). Vercammen-Grandjean (1960) erected the subgenus Chiroptella Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 in the genus Eltonella Audy, 1956 with a type-species Trombicula insolli Philip & Traub, 1950. This taxonomic act was based on the following characteristics of the new subgenus Chiroptella: 6B or 5BS palpal tarsal formula; subtrapezoidal scutum; nude galeal seta; 3-pronged palpal claw; and 2 genualae on leg I. However, in his later work, Vercammen-Grandjean (1965a, b) proved that 6B or 5BS palpal tarsal formula was erroneous and corrected it for the subgenus Chiroptella to 7B and also transferred Chiroptella from Eltonella to Leptotrombidium Nagayo, Miyagawa, Mitamura & Imamura, 1916. Based on his study of larval and nymphal characters, Nadchatram (1966) raised Chiroptella to full
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