| id | 45698 (last modified: 5.10.2021) |
| title | A revision of Parasecia (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae) with a description of a new species, a new genus and a key to species |
| year | 2021 |
| paper | Journal of Medical Entomology |
| edition | 58 [1] |
| page | 146-181 |
| language | English |
| checked | paper |
| abstract | Chiggers of the genus Parasecia Loomis parasitize birds, mammals, and reptiles in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. In the present review, we examined 18 species previously included in the genus, 15 of them being retained in the genus Parasecia, one genus is created, Nahuacarus bulbocalcar n. gen. (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae), and new combinations are proposed for two species: Lorillatum lasiurus n. comb. and Lorillatum orphana n. comb. (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae). In addition, Parasecia kansasensis (Loomis) (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae) is synonymized with Parasecia gurneyi (Ewing) (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae), Parasecia gilbetoi n. sp. (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae) is described and new locality and host records are added for Parasecia chara (Wharton), Parasecia longicalcar (Brennan and Jones), Parasecia manueli (Brennan and Jones), and Parasecia thalurania (Brennan) (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae). |
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| author | Bassini-Silva, Ricardo |
| coauthor | Jacinavicius, Fernando de Castro |
| coauthor | Oliveira, Mariana |
| coauthor | Contreras Peinado, Laura |
| coauthor | Faxina, Claudenice |
| coauthor | Moreira-Lima, Luciano |
| coauthor | Welbourn, Warren Calvin |
| coauthor | Ochoa, Ronald |
| coauthor | Fischer, Erich |
| coauthor | Hingst-Zaher, Erika |
| coauthor | Famadas, Kátia Maria |
| coauthor | Faccini, João Luiz Horácio |
| coauthor | Barros Battesti, Darci Moraes |