Abstract
The present list contains data on type material of 109 mite species (Acaridida and Prostigmata) from Bulgaria (species, described by I. Vassilev, M. Kolebinova, P. Beron) and many foreign countries: Greece, Suriname, the Netherlands, New Guinea, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, USA, Canada, Madagascar, Gaboon, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Morocco, Tunisia, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, China, and the Philippines (species, described by M. Kolebinova, P. Beron, F. Lukoschus, A. Fain, C. Welbourn, F. Dusbabek, K. Samsinak, K. R. Orwig, W. Atyeo and other authors). The type material housed in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia includes species from the families Acaridae, Glycyphagidae, Canestriniidae, Proctophyllodidae, Trouessartiidae, Syringobiidae, Dermationidae, Ereynetidae, Cytoditidae, Myocoptidae, Chirodiscidae, Gastronyssidae, Myobiidae, Ophioptidae, Demodicidae, Smarididae, Erythraeidae, Neotrombidiidae, Eutrombidiidae, Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae, Walchiidae, and Vatacaridae. All Bulgarian and foreign acarologists are kindly invited to submit type specimens under their care in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. This material will be properly housed and well used.
Highlights
The descriptions of new taxa of Acari by Bulgarian acarologists start rather late
The type material housed in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia includes species from the families Acaridae, Glycyphagidae, Canestriniidae, Proctophyllodidae, Trouessartiidae, Syringobiidae, Dermationidae, Ereynetidae, Cytoditidae, Myocoptidae, Chirodiscidae, Gastronyssidae, Myobiidae, Ophioptidae, Demodicidae, Smarididae, Erythraeidae, Neotrombidiidae, Eutrombidiidae, Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae, Walchiidae, and Vatacaridae
The type specimens of this species are currently missing and the efforts to be found after the death of Drenski in 1963 have not been successful
Summary
The descriptions of new taxa of Acari by Bulgarian acarologists start rather late. First, Drenski described the tick Argas bureshi Drenski, 1957. Label data: “Paratype ♀, ex Apodemus sylvaticus [Muridae], NL[Nederlands] – Hatert, 14.11.1966, Lukoschus leg.”. Label data: “Paratype, ♀, ex Carollia perspicillata [Phyllostomatidae], Lelydorp, Suriname, 15.12.1969, Lukoschus leg.”. Label data: “Paratype, ♀, ex Molossus molossus, Paramaribo [Suriname], 1.1.1970, Lukoschus leg. Label data: “Paratype ♀ 504, ex Eptesicus melanopterus [Vespertilionidae], Meerzorg, [Suriname], 3.3.1970, Lukoschus leg.”.
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