Leptotrombidium peromysci Vercammen­Grandjean & Langston

Ex Microtus chrotorrhinus (rock vole): 2L, NC, Swain Co., Clingman’s Dome, 13 May 2002, K. Walters, L­ 2990.

This is a common chigger of small mammals, especially rodents, in the southeastern United States (Durden et al. 1997b). In Asia and the Pacific region, chiggers in the genus Leptotrombidium transmit the causative agent of scrub typhus.