Table 2.
Species of chiggers collected from small mammals captured in the southwest area of Korea, from September 2014 to December 2016
| Number of chiggers collected (%) | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host species | Leptotrombidium scutellare | Leptotrombidium pallidum | Leptotrombidium orientale | Leptotrombidium palpale | Leptotrombidium zetum | Neotrombicular gardellai | Neotrombicular japonica | Euchoengastia koreaensis | Walchia fragilis | |
| Rodents | ||||||||||
| Apodemus agrarius | 1,866 | 474 | 585 | 237 | 30 | 50 | 2 | 268 | – | 3,512 (92.0) |
| Myodes regulus | 38 | – | 219 | 19 | 2 | – | – | 5 | 18 | 301 (7.9) |
| Shrews | ||||||||||
| Crocidura lasiura | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 (> 0.1) |
| Total | 1,907 (49.9) | 474 (12.4) | 804 (21.1) | 256 (6.7) | 32 (0.8) | 50 (1.3) | 2 (> 0.1) | 273 (7.2) | 18 (0.5) | 3,816 (100) |