Genus Guntheria Womersley, 1939

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• Guntheria Womersley, H. 1939. Further notes on the Australian Trombidiidae, with description of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63: 149-166.
• Guntherana Womersley, H. & Heaslip, W.G. 1943. The Trombiculinae (Acarina) or itch-mites of the Austro-Malayan and Oriental regions. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 67: 68-142 [unnecessary replacement name].
• Derrickiella Audy, J.R. & Domrow, R. 1957. Malaysian parasites - XXIII. A revision of Oriental & Australasian species of Euschongastia Ewing, including Walchiella Fuller, and description of a new subgenus, Derrickiella, (Acarina Trombiculidae). Studies of the Institute of Medical Research of the Federated Malay States 28: 121-152.
• Domrowella Vercammen-Grandjean, P.H. 1960. Introduction a un essai de classification rationnelle des larves de Trombiculinae Ewing 1944 (Acarina - Trombiculidae). Acarologia 2: 469-471 pls 1-2 [first introduced as a subgenus of Pseudoschoengastia Lipovsky, 1951].
• Zyzomyacarus Goff, M.L. 1979. A new genus and five new species of chiggers (Acari : Trombiculidae) from Zyzomys argurus. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8: 81-91.

Introduction

Portas et al. (2014, 2016) reported two unidentified species of Guntheria on the eastern bettong.

General References

Portas, T., Fletcher, D., Spratt., D., Reiss, A., Holz, P., Stadler, K., Devlin, J., Taylor, D., Dobroszczyk, D. & Manning, A.D. 2014. Health evaluation of free-ranging eastern bettongs (Bettongia gaimardi) during translocation for reintroduction in eastern Australia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 50: 210-223.

Portas, T.J., Cunningham, R.B., Spratt, D., Devlin, J., Holz, P., Batson, W., Owens, J. & Manning, A.D. 2016. Beyond morbidity and mortality in reintroduction programmes: changing health parameters in reintroduced eastern bettongs Bettongia gaimardi. Oryx 50(4): 674-683.

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