A new genus and species of bat chiggers (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) from Kenya Author Stekolnikov, Alexandr A. Laboratory of Parasitic Arthropods, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, text Acarologia 2022 2022-04-13 62 2 418 425 https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4520 journal article 10.24349/5n37-k5b9 2107-7207 MINteracarus n. gen. Zoobank: BFBE06BC-8911-4A5B-8D74-E80B3DFA7ABC Diagnosis SIF = 5B1N-N-2-3111.0000; fsp = 7.7.7; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.2; fPp = B/B/NBB. Idiosoma slightly contracted medially in engorged specimens; eyes absent; first two rows of dorsal idiosomal setae double or triple, total number of idiosomal setae exceeds 150. Cheliceral blade with tricuspid cap; galeal (deutorostral) seta nude; palpal claw (odontus) slender, with two small apical prongs; palpal tarsus with heavily branched dorsal seta of about same width and length as palpal claw, four setae bearing few branches, one nude seta, and large curved basal tarsala ( ω ) longer than palpal tarsus. Scutum small, bell-shaped, with puncta and prominent anterolateral shoulders; PL setae extrascutal; sensilla flagelliform, branched. Legs I and II with one pretarsala ( ζ ); subterminala ( ζ ) and nude parasubterminala z () present; tarsalae I and II ( ω ) of about equal shape and length; famulus I ε )(distal to tarsala I; famulus II ( ε ) near and slightly proximal to tarsala II; microgenuala and microtibiala I ( κ ) long and thick, setiform; tibialae I ( φ ) very thick and long (longer than tarsala I), curved, striated; three long genualae σ ); I two(tibialae II ( φ ), one genuala II ( σ ), one tibiala III ( φ ) and one genuala III σ (), mastisetae absent.