<strong> <em> Leptotrombidium </ em> (Acari: Trombiculidae) of the World </ strong>
Author
STEKOLNIKOV, ALEXANDR A.
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-10-25
3728
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3728.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3728.1.1
1175-5326
5267733
9D2AB42A-792A-4496-A709-31D35E3579E6
41.
Leptotrombidium megabodense
sp. nov.
Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) bodense
var.
megabodense
Vercammen-Grandjean and Langston, 1976: 351
, pl. 63.
Diagnosis.
SIF = 7B-B-2-2111.0000; fPp = N/N/BNN; Pc = 2; Gn = 2; fSc: PL >> AM> AL; SB-PL; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.2; fD = 2H-8-6-6-4-2; DS = 28; VS = 28; NDV = 56; Ip = 849–859; AW 68–74, PW 81–86, SB 31–34, ASB 36, PSB 14, SD 46–50, AP 31–32, AM 58–64, AL 50–52, PL 72–74, S 88, H 64, D
min
48, D
max
60, V
min
38, V
max
51, pa 300–303, pm 254–259, pp 292–300. Eyes 2 + 2. Scutal posteromargin biconvex, well protruded. SB at level of PLs. Ratio PW/AP = 2.65. Dorsal idiosomal setae densely covered with 4 rows of moderate barbs (barbed tetrapectinala). Flagelliform sensilla with small cilia in proximal half and 19 long branches in distal half (
Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976
).
Type material (not examined).
Holotype
(L: 82153/4) and
3 paratypes
larvae ex
Tupaia montana
Thomas
,
MALAYSIA
:
Sabah State
,
Kinabalu Mt
,
21 August 1953
, coll.
R
. Traub. Type series is deposited in
IMR
.
Etymology.
Species epithet refers to the large size of this species, as compared with the closely related
Leptotrombidium bodense
(Gunther, 1940)
.