@article{16f9556f111144969fd3855c260a2029,
title = "Ectoparasitic mites of the genus Gigantolaelaps (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) associated with small mammals of the genus Nephelomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae), including two new species from Peru",
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.",
keywords = "Ectoparasites, Gigantolaelaps inca fonseca, Gigantolaelaps minima n. Sp., Gigantolaelaps nebulosa n. Sp., Laelapidae, Nephelomys, Taxonomy",
author = "Donald Gettinger and Gardner, {Scott L.}",
note = "Funding Information: The biological survey and acarological collection upon which this study is based was supported by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru and a grant from the National Science Foundation (DEB–9870191) to B. D. Patter-son, D. F. Stotz, and J. W. O. Ballard. Additional funding for work in the laboratory was provided by the National Science Foundation Grant Nos. BSR–9024816, DBI–06466356, and DBI–1458139. Funding Information: The biological survey and acarological collection upon which this study is based was supported by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru and a grant from the National Science Foundation (DEB–9870191) to B. D. Patterson, D. F. Stotz, and J. W. O. Ballard. Additional funding for work in the laboratory was provided by the National Science Foundation Grant Nos. BSR–9024816, DBI–06466356, and DBI–1458139. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Gettinger D. and Gardner S.L.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.24349/acarologia/20174191",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "57",
pages = "755--763",
journal = "Acarologia",
issn = "0044-586X",
publisher = "Les Amis d'Acarologia",
number = "4",
}