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Research Project: Plant Feeding Mite (Acari) Systematics

Location: Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Title: Synonymy of the genus Arisocerus Brennan, 1970 with the genus Herpetacarus Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae)

Author
item JACINAVICIUS, F.C. - Universidad De Sao Paulo
item BASSINI-SILVA, R. - Universidad De Sao Paulo
item WELBOURN, W.C. - Florida Department Of Agriculture And Consumer Services
item Ochoa, Ronald - Ron
item BATTESTI, D.M. - Faculdade De Ciências Agrárias E Veterinárias De Jaboticabal-Unesp

Submitted to: Systematic and Applied Acarology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/29/2019
Publication Date: 8/1/2019
Citation: Jacinavicius, F., Bassini-Silva, R., Welbourn, W., Ochoa, R., Battesti, D. 2019. Synonymy of the genus Arisocerus Brennan, 1970 with the genus Herpetacarus Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology. 24(1):1138-1149.

Interpretive Summary: Chiggers are important economic parasites associated to vertebrates including the man. This is a review of a chigger mite genus from Brazil that parasite mammals. These results are important to public health officials, animal protection officers, extension workers, agriculture scientists, entomologists and farmers.

Technical Abstract: The genus Arisocerus is synonymized with Herpetacarus. Redescriptions of Herpetacarus amapensis comb. nov. and Herpetacarus hertigi comb. nov., are provide with new Brazilian locality and host records for H. hertigi comb. nov