ABSTRACT
The species Pseudoschoengastia petrolinensis n. sp. is described and illustrated below from specimens discovered parasitizing a white-eared opossum, Dildelphis albiventris Lund (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae), in Carneiros, Petrolina municipality, Pernambuco state, Brazil. In addition the species Eutrombicula spipi and Quadraseta falconensis are also new records to Brazil. The D. albiventris is a new host record to Eutrombicula batatas, E. spipi, Q. falconensis, and the state of Pernambuco is a new locality for all these species.
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Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to Ana I Arraes-Santos, Ivo W.G. da Silva, Josenilton R. Santos, Lais F. Santos, and Mariana C. Fontalvo for their valuable help during the field Works; to Gabrielle Ribeiro de Andrade and Maria Cristina Ferreira do Rosário for technical contribution; to Beatriz Mauricio, Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Instituto Butantan, for the technical assistance in preparing the scanning electron micrographs and to Dr. Gregory Evans, APHIS-PPQ, USDA for the revision of the manuscript and his recommendations. To Ronald Ochoa, curator of Acari collection of the USNM (NMNH) which is housed at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory (BARC-USDA-ARS), by the access to the type series examined.
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