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Ttw

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Two wonderful reports. The photos are remarkable. Your report of the chiggers reminds me of when I was collecting in Venezuela and took a break from Apisto collecting and went to the Gran Sabana to collect killifish. There we experienced a biting gnat called jejen or La Plaga. Never have I experienced such intense itching and it lasted for days.
 

Tom C

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... Your report of the chiggers reminds me of when I was collecting in Venezuela .... Never have I experienced such intense itching and it lasted for days.
Hehe, yes, there are "a few" creatures, who love to eat parts of us, out there. :)

I probably had the same kind of infestation in 2010, as in 2011:
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In 2010, apart from the horrible itching, I didn't feel bad or sick. But in 2011, the chiggers probably carried, and transferred to me, some additional bacteria or virus.
 

mrjbacon

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Is the A. sp. 'Matses' from the 2011 report part of the Nijsseni lineage? The coloring is very similar to A. nijsseni and A. panduro, and the longer trailing ventrals, especially on the females, are reminiscent of my A. rositae. Seems like most of those species are all from the same general geographical area as well with the exception of A. erythrura 'Rio Mamoré'.

Those A. sp. 'Matses' are beautiful.
 

Mike Wise

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Lineage -> Sublineage -> Group -> Complex -> Subcomplex


Both the trifasciata- and nijsseni-groups are part of the trifasciata-linage.

(For TomC: honest, I AM working on updates of the descriptions of species-groups!)
 

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