Species Guntheria coorongensis (Hirst, 1929)
- Schoengastia coorongense Hirst, S. 1929. Note on the 'Tea-tree Itch-mite' (Trombicula hirsti, Sambon = T. pseudo-akamushi, Hatori?). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 3: 564-565.
- Euschoengastia cairnsens gateri 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.
- Neoschoengastia cairnsensis gateri Taylor, F.H. 1946. Spiders, ticks and mites, including the species harmful to man in Australia and New Guinea. Section 1. Descriptive. Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publications (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney) 6: 1-234 [as var.].
- Euschoengastia popei Womersley, H. 1954. Eight new species of Trombiculidae (Acarina) from Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 77: 67-80 [as Euschongastia].
Introduction
See Domrow & Lester (1985) for a summary of the difficulties surrounding the identification of this species.
General References
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 (as Euschoengastia cairnsensis; as Euschoengastia coorongensis)
Barrow, G.J., Domrow, R. & Derrick, E.H. 1963. Rocky Creek, an outlying focus of scrub typhus in north Queensland. Australasian Annals of Medicine 12: 166-170 (as Guntherana coorongensis)
Beveridge, I. & Barker, I.K. 1976. The parasites of Antechinus stuartii Macleay from Powelltown, Victoria, with observations on seasonal and sex-related variations in numbers of helminths. Australian Journal of Zoology 24: 265-272 (as Guntheria coorongensis)
Domrow, R. 1956. Three new Australian chigger nymphs (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 144-152 (as Euschoengastia cairnsensis)
Domrow, R. 1960. The genus Guntherana (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Pacific Insects 2: 195-237 (as Guntherana coorongensis)
Domrow, R. 1962. Mammals of Innisfail. II. Their mite parasites. Australian Journal of Zoology 10: 268-306 (as Guntherana coorongensis)
Domrow, R. 1964. Five chiggers of the genera Guntherana and Trombicula (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acarologia 6: 324-335 (as Guntherana coorongensis)
Domrow, R. 1967. Mite parasites of small mammals from scrub typhus foci in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 759-798 (as Guntherana coorongensis)
Domrow, R. 1974. Miscellaneous mites from Australian vertebrates. 1-48. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 99: 15-35 (as Guntheria coorongensis)
Domrow, R. 1978. New records and species of chiggers from Australasia (Acari : Trombiculidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17: 75-90 (as Guntheria coorongensis)
Domrow, R. & Lester, L.N. 1985. Chiggers of Australia (Acari : Trombiculidae) an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 114: 1-111 (as Guntheria coorongensis)
Domrow, R. & Smith, D.J.W. 1956. Acarina from five hundred native mammals from Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 80: 201-206 (as Euschoengastia cairnsensis; as Euschoengastia popei)
Gunther, C.E.M. 1952. A check list of the Trombiculid larvae of Asia and Australasia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 77: 1-60 (as Neoschoengastia cairnsensis; as Neoschoengastia coorongensis)
Hirst, S. 1929. On the larval trombidiid mite (Trombicula hirsti L. Sambon) that causes the 'scrub itch' of northern Queensland and The Coorong, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 24-26 (as Schoengastia coorongensis)
Mackerras, I.M., Mackerras, M.J. & Sandars, D.F. 1953. Parasites of the bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 61-63 (as Ascoschoengastia cairnsensis)
Mykytowycz, R. 1957. Ectoparasites of the wild rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (L.), in Australia. CSIRO Wildlife Research 2: 63-65 (as Euschoengastia popei)
Oakwood, M. & Spratt, D.M. 2000. Parasites of the northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in tropical savanna, Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 48: 79-90 (as Guntheria coorongensis)
Southcott, R.V. 1997. Ecology, life-history and morphometrics of the Australian chigger mite Guntheria coorongensis (Hirst) (Acarina : Trombiculidae). Acarologia 38: 127-139 (as Guntheria coorongensis)
Taylor, F.H. 1946. Spiders, ticks and mites, including the species harmful to man in Australia and New Guinea. Section 1. Descriptive. Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publications (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney) 6: 1-234 (as Neoschoengastia cairnsensis; as Neoschoengastia coorongensis)
Thor, S. & Willmann, C. 1947. Fam. Trombidiidae. Das Tierreich 71b: 187-541 (as Schoengastia coorongensis)
Vercammen-Grandjean, P.H. & Langston, R.L. 1971. The Chigger Mites of the World. Volume VIII, Guntherana complex. Section A. Genus Guntherana. San Francisco : George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California 151 pp. 62 pls. (as Guntherana cairnsensis; as Guntherana coorongensis)
Womersley, H. 1934. A revision of the trombid and erythraeid mites of Australia with descriptions of new genera and species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 179-254 (as Schoengastia coorongense)
Womersley, H. 1937. A revision of the Australian Trombidiidae (Acarina). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 75-100 (as Schoengastia coorongensis)
Womersley, H. 1952. The scrub-typhus and scrub-itch mites (Trombiculidae, Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific region. Part 1 (Text). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 10: 1-435 Pt 2 (pls) 437-673 (as Schoengastia cairnsensis; as Schoengastia coorongense)
Womersley, H. & Audy, J.R. 1957. Malaysian parasites - XXVII. The Trombiculidae (Acarina) of the Asiatic-Pacific region. A revised and annotated list of the species in Womersley (1952), with descriptions of larvae and nymphs. Studies of the Institute of Medical Research of the Federated Malay States 28: 231-296 (as Euschoengastia cairnsensis; as Euschoengastia coorongense)
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 (as Neoschoengastia coorongensis)
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