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

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.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  ZooKeys

• Publication date

  2018-03-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3897/zookeys.743.22675PMID 29670435PMCID 5904395
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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