Four New Peruvian Chiggers (Acarina-Trombiculidæ)

Notes on Som'e Chiggers' (Acarina: Trombiculidae)

THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT is based upon specimens collected by members of the 207th Preventive Medicine Survey Detachment and the 37th Preventive Medicine Survey Detachment in southern Korea. It is undoubtedly incomplete, and the sampling may be selective: the hosts examined came mostly from agricultural areas and near dwellings. Despite the inevitable shortcomings of such a pre~ liminary survey, t...

A review of Northern Peruvian glassfrogs (Centrolenidae), with the description of four new remarkable species.

Peru is well known for amphibian diversity and endemism, yet there have been relatively few field studies of glassfrog (Centrolenidae) diversity in this country. Research in Colombia and Ecuador indicates that centrolenid diversity is higher in the northern Andes. However, part of this trend appears to be due to sampling effort. We conducted fieldwork throughout northern Peru, and based on phyl...

A new species of chigger mite, Hannemania hegeneri (Acarina; Trombiculidae).

NEW NASAL MITES PTILONYSSUS AND PARANEONYSSUS (Acarina: Mesostigmata), FROM TAIWAN AND NEW GUINEA

Paraneonyssus pericrocoti is described from Pericrocotus roseus divaricatus in Taiwan and Ptilonyssus wilsoni from Collocalia sp. in New Guinea. The following new species of nasal mites from Taiwan and New Guinea were collected for Bishop Museum in the course of an intensive survey of ectoparasites of Taiwan birds made by T. C. Maa, and in the course of general surveys of vertebrate ectoparasit...

6 A NEW GENUS AND TWO NEW SPECIES OF GLYCYPHAGINAE FROM AUSTRALIA ( Acarina : Glycyphagidae ) "