Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
7-4-2017
Citation
Acarologia (2017) 57(4): 755-763. DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20174191. ZooBank: 1559C74D-E850-4FC7-86A6-352B16C752E1.
Abstract
An extensive survey of small mammals and ectoparasites along an altitudinal transect in the Manu Biodiversity Reserve in Peru found the sigmodontine rodent genus Nephelomys infested by mites of the genus Gigantolaelaps Fonseca, 1939. Two distinct species co-occurred exclusively in the pelage of Nephelomys keaysi, G. inca Fonseca and G. minima n. sp. Nephelomys levipes, which replaces N. keaysi at higher elevations, was infested exclusively with a single new species, G. nebulosa n. sp. In this paper, we formally describe these new mite species, and provide more information on the morphology of G. inca.
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Copyright 2017, the authors. Open access, Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives license. Article also available at http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4191.