A catalogue of the holotypes of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) at the Natural History Museum of Geneva Author Stekolnikov, Alexandr A. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-06-21 4620 1 1 71 journal article 26397 10.11646/zootaxa.4620.1.1 82d43700-aa12-4d32-b6e0-bdd40a1966ff 1175-5326 3257181 9D933ED1-5ABC-42CE-8B8E-F0BE22983E9D Tenotrombicula minteri Vercammen-Grandjean, 1965 Tenotrombicula minteri Vercammen-Grandjean, 1965b: 259 , figs 1–14. Declared deposition: RMCA. Name on slide: Tenotrombicula minteri . Handwritten catalogue: Eltonella (Tenotrombicula) . Inscription: TYPE . Collection data: Smeath, N[orthern] F[rontier] D[istrict], Kenya ; in a mound of Macrotermes bellicosus (Smethman) ; nursery zone mound; Jul. 1956 . Number(s): A: 756/T/1. Remarks: Described from adult instars. According to a supposition of Vercammen-Grandjean (1965b), these mites could be postlarval stages of Microtrombicula celiae , because some individuals of the latter, which is known exclusively from larvae, were found together with T. minteri . Note, however, that a similar hypothesis concerning Blankaartia nilotica ( Trägårdh, 1905 ) led to an erroneous association of postlarval stages with larvae belonging to a different family ( Vercammen-Grandjean 1973 ).