A checklist of chiggers from Brazil, including new records (Acari: Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae)

Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius; Ricardo Bassini-Silva; Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan; Almir Rogério Pepato; Ronald Ochoa; Cal Welbourn; Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti

doi:10.3897/zookeys.743.22675

A checklist of chiggers from Brazil, including new records (Acari: Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae)

Zookeys. 2018 Mar 14:(743):1-41. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.743.22675. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius^{1

2}, Ricardo Bassini-Silva², Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan², Almir Rogério Pepato³, Ronald Ochoa⁴, Cal Welbourn⁵, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti⁶

Affiliations

¹ Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP; Brazil.
² Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, FMVZ-USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
³ Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
⁴ Systematic Entomology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA.
⁵ Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁶ Departamento de Patologia Veterinária, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias-UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil.

Abstract

A checklist of the family Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae is presented, containing 63 species in 30 genera of chiggers from 80 different hosts and 146 localities in Brazil. The type locality and depository are provided, including new locality and host records for the country.

Keywords: Brazil; Chigger mites; Cricetidae; Didelphidae; distribution.