Rudnicula goffi n. sp. (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) from the diadem leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros diadema (Geoffroy) (Chir
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Rudnicula goffi n. sp. (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) from the diadem leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros diadema (Geoffroy) (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) on Bali, Indonesia Stanislav Kalu´z . Petr Sˇra´mek . Martin Sˇevcˇ´ık
Received: 4 March 2020 / Accepted: 23 October 2020 Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract A new species of chigger mite, Rudnicula goffi n. sp., is described from the diadem leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros diadema (Geoffroy) (Hipposideridae) caught in the Goa Peteng Cave on Bali (Indonesia). The new species differs from the closely related species by the presence of scutum with AL windows, lateral scutal margins with cuticular striations and fSt = 2 ? 2 ? 2. A list of all available records of Rudnicula species is provided. The genus is restricted to the tropics of Southeast Asia, Australia, Melanesia, and the subtropics of eastern Asia. A key to the known species of Rudnicula based on the morphology of the larvae is also provided.
This article was registered in the Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature (ZooBank) as urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: C5F7FE7B-7EBC-4A46-9334-040F5B341EF6. 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. 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 Prague 7, Czech Republic M. Sˇevcˇ´ık (&) Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Vinicˇna´ 7, 128 44 Prague 2, Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected]
Introduction All species of the chigger mite genus Rudnicula Vercammen-Grandjean, 1964 are strictly confined to association with bats (Vercammen-Grandjean 1964). The first scientific information related to this taxon was published by Vercammen-Grandjean (1964), who proposed Rudnicula as a new subgenus of Trombicula Berlese, 1905 for T. tibbettsi Vercammen-Grandjean, 1961, a species of bat-infesting chigger found in South Korea. In the following year, this author elevated Rudnicula to full generic status and in the same paper (Vercammen-Grandjean 1965) replaced the name T. tibbettsi with T. tibbi since his studies showed that T. tibbettsi was a primary homonym of Trombicula tibbettsi Brennan & White, 1960. In the past, many more species currently placed elsewhere, were included in the genus Rudnicula. The last revision of the genus was published by Brown et al. (1988). Yet, further descriptions of new Rudnicula spp. have been published since then (Goff & Easton 1989; Brown 1997). After the recent transfer of four species, namely Rudnicula aethiopica (Hirst, 1926), R. melvini Traub & Evans, 1950, R. knighty (Radford, 1954) and R. balcanica Kolebinova, 1966 to the genus Trisetica Traub & Evans, 1950 by Stekolnikov & Quetglas (2019), the genus contains nine species of Rudnicula. Herein, we describe a ne
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