A new genus and species of bat chiggers (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) from Kenya

Stekolnikov A.A.

Acarologia, 62 (2): 418–425 (2022).

S U M M A R Y

A new genus and species of chigger mites, Minteracarus mombasa n. gen., n. sp., has been described from the heart-nosed bat, Cardioderma cor (Peters) (Chiroptera: Megadermatidae) in Mombasa, Kenya. The description was based on the material identified as a new species of the genus Trombicula Berlese, 1905 by P.H. Vercammen-Grandjean, but remained undescribed until the present.