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Research Project: Plant Feeding Mite (Acari) Systematics

Location: Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Title: Primary and secondary type catalog of the USNM Chigger collection: family Trombiculidae sensu lato (Acari: Trombidiformes)

Author
item BASSINI-SILVA, R. - UNIVERSIDAD DE SAO PAULO
item JACINAVICIUS, F. - UNIVERSIDAD DE SAO PAULO
item WELBOURN, W. - FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES
item BARROS-BATTESTI, D. - SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY (UNESP)
item Ochoa, Ronald - Ron

Submitted to: Smithsonian National Chigger Collection
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/10/2020
Publication Date: 1/8/2021
Citation: Bassini-Silva, R., Jacinavicius, F.C., Welbourn, W.C., Barros-Battesti, D.M., Ochoa, R. 2021. Primary and secondary type catalog of the USNM Chigger collection: family Trombiculidae sensu lato (Acari: Trombidiformes). Smithsonian National Chigger Collection. 652:1-142. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.13546616.v1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.13546616.v1

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Mites in the Family Trombiculidae sensu lato are parasitic in their larval stage of all terrestrial vertebrates, even humans. There are more than 3700 species of chiggers, and about one third of these type species are housed at the Smithsonian National Chigger Collection, currently housed at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEM), United States Department of Agriculture USDA), Beltsville, MD. Then, a type catalog with an update information list about the types housed in this collection is provided. In this study we are considering all the types recognized by the zoological nomenclature code (holotype, paratype, syntype, lectotype and paralectotype). Here, 1015 type species are listed, containing 640 holotypes, 782 paratypes, 69 syntypes, 19 lectotypes and 16 paralectotypes of larvae, deutonymphs and adults chiggers.