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Megabothris (Megabothris) calcarifer (Wagner, 1913)

Collection number:

ZISP_INSI_2979

Original label left:

2979 Lectotypus Ceratophyllus calcarifer Wag. ♂ Microtus sp. Det: J. Wagn.

Original label right:

Amur River Malyshev. channel 15/28.V.10 Soldatov 24-911

Collection place:

Russia, Khabarovsky District

Locality:

Amur River Malyshev. channel

Zoogeographical region:

Siberian province

Collected:

Soldatov V., 28.05.1910

GenBank catalogue number:

 

Number of specimens in collection unit:

1

Sex:

male

Ontogenetic stage:

imago

Host organism:

Microtus Schrank, 1798

Host sex:

not known

Host age:

not identified

Fixation:

Canada balsam

Specimen presence:

in collection

Related publications, remarks:

Wagner J. Ceratophyllus calcarifer sp. n. Yearbook of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 1914 (1913). Т. 18. S. 263-267. (Figs. 1-3).
S. 263: Unter den von В. K. Soldatow im Ussuri-Gebiet gesammelten Aphanipteren, welche sich im Zoologischen Museum der Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften befinden, erwiesen sich 2 ♂♂ und 2 ♀♀ als neue Ceratophyllus-Arten.
S. 267: Zwei ♂♂ und zwei ♀♀ wurden in einem Glase unten am Boden gefunden, in dem ein Exemplar Microtus sp. in Spiritus aufbewahrt war, welches von B. Soldatow aus dem Ussurigebiet (von den Amur-Inseln gegenuber der «Malischowskaya Protoka»).
Smit, Wright, 1965 : 14 - 2 ♂ 1 ♀ [The second female listed by Wagner is advenarius q. v.], from an island in the Amur river opposite the “Malischowskaya Protoka", Ussuri region Khabarov Kray], from Microtus sp, 15. (28.)V.1910, leg. B. K. Soldatov. Lectotype selection: The ♂ syntype in ZIL.
am 15(28).V.1910 erbeutet wurde.

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Taxonomical identifications of specimen

Megabothris (Megabothris) calcarifer (Wagner, 1913) — Wagner J.N., 1910 (Accepted)