Leptotrombidium fletcheri

Leptotrombidium fletcheri (Womersley and Heaslip, 1943) Trombicula fletcheri Womersley and Heaslip, 1943: 86, fig. 4, pl. III (8); Radford 1954: 250. Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) fletcheri fletcheri: Vercammen-Grandjean & Langston 1976: 301, pls. 38, 39. Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) fletcheri: Brown 1992: 290. Leptotrombidium fletcheri: Stekolnikov 2013: 93. Leptotrombidium (Leptotrombidium) fletcheri francolini Wen and Xiang, 1984a: 213, fig. III-24; Wen 1984b: 306. Type deposition. IMR (lectotype). Type data. L. fletcheri: ex Rattus rattus, Malaysia, Selangor State, Sungei Buloh; L. fletcheri francolini: ex Francolinus pintadeanus, China, Yunnan Province. Hosts. RODENTIA: Apomys insignis, Bullimus bagobus, Melomys sp., Rattus argentiventer, R. everetti, R. exulans, R. mordax, R. praetor, R. rattus, R. sordidus, R. tanezumi, R. tiomanicus, Sundasciurus mindanensis, Uromys caudimaculatus; CHIROPTERA: Haplonycteris sp.; SCANDENTIA: Urogale everetti; PERAMELEMORPHIA: Echymipera kalubu cockerelli; DIPROTODONTIA: Dactylopsila trivirgata; AVES: Francolinus pintadeanus, Rallus torguatus sanfordi. Distribution. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines.Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, pp. 1-163 in Zootaxa 4913 (1) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/444891