Five new species of Anthocoptini from China (Acari: Eriophyidae)
Author
Xue, Xiao-Feng
Author
Song, Zi-Wei
Author
Hong, Xiao-Yue
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-07-21
2544
1
53
http://dx.doi.org/10.15468/um2vzb
journal article
10.15468/um2vzb
1175-5326
5303209
Haematoloechus medioplexus
Stafford, 1902
Site of infection:
lungs.
Recruitment:
ingestion.
Distribution:
Canada
:
Quebec
(
Fantham & Porter 1948
).
USA
:
Iowa
(
Cain & French 1975
).
No specimens in collections.
Remarks:
Some species parasitizing
Lithobates
spp.
in
Mexico
were recorded as
H
.
medioplexus
; further, they were re-determined as
H
.
danbrooksi
(
León-Règagnon & Paredes-Calderón 2002
)
. This species is a second intermediate host specialist, parasitizing only anisopteran odonates (
Krull 1930
;
Snyder & Janovy 1994
).