The subfamily Leeuwenhoekinae in the Neotropics (Acarina: Trombiculidae)

Authors

Jack T. Reed, Department of Zoology, Brigham Young University, Provo Utah 84602
James M. Brennan, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, NIH, NIAID, Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana 59840

Abstract

Neotropical representatives of the subfamily Leeuwenhoekinae are reviewed. The genus Odontacarus comprises 66 percent of the chiggers examined, and 82 percent of this genus were identified as O. tubercularis (Brennan). The following genera are redescribed: Albeckia Veracammen-Grandjean and Watkins, Leeuwenhoekia Oudemans, Odontacarus Ewing, Sasacarus Brennan and Jones, Wagenaaria Brennan, and Whartonia Ewing. New taxa are: Odontacarus comosus comosus, O. c. novemsetus, O. dienteslargus, O. pugnosus, O. schoenesetosus, O. sunnianae, O. tiptoni, O. tuberculohirsutus, O. vanderhammeni, O. vergrandi, Sasacarus furmani panamensis, and Whartonia angulascuta. Odontacarus fieldi Brennan and Jones, 1961, and O. cayolargoensis Brennan, 1959, are synonymized under O. tubercularis Brennan, 1952. Keys to genera and species are provided.

Recommended Citation

Reed, Jack T. and Brennan, James M. (1975) "The subfamily Leeuwenhoekinae in the Neotropics (Acarina: Trombiculidae)," Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series: Vol. 20: No. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byuscib/vol20/iss1/1