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A checklist of trombiculid mites of the Oriental and Australasian regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. R. Audy
J. R. Audy
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Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur
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A checklist is given of the 320 species and four subspecies of trombiculid mites of the Oriental and Australasian regions described up to the end of 1955, together with a number from papers being published in 1956 and 1957 and consulted by the writer in manuscript or proofs.

Eight new genera, six subgenera, and 175 species from the Oriental and Australasian regions have been described since the compilation of the checklist of world trombiculids by Wharton & Fuller (1952).

The present list gives only the documentation and records necessary to bring the appropriate part of Wharton & Fuller's publication up to date. Cross-references are given to the monograph by Womersley (1952) and its appendix by Womersley & Audy (1957), as well as to the checklists of Gunther (1952) and Radford (1954).

The taxonomic arrangement has been revised in accordance with recent publications. Four new combinations of species of Neotrombicula are recorded.

A supplementary Faunal List is presented, confined to records which now require to be added to the Faunal List of Wharton & Fuller.

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Parasitology , Volume 47 , Issue 1-2 , June 1957 , pp. 217 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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