Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A.
Author
Reeves, Will K.
Author
Durden, Lance A.
Author
Wrenn, William J.
text
Zootaxa
2004
647
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158298
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11755326
158298
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Neotrombicula fitchi
(Loomis)
Pickens Co., Eastatoe Valley,
28 October 1992
, ex
Glaucomys volans
, coll. S. Miller. This chigger was found in the ears of a male flying squirrel. The major hosts for larvae in eastern Kansas were tree squirrels, whereas in south central Kansas they were taken from cave bats and “gray wood rats” (
Loomis 1956
).