Talk:Trombicula

Naming
Chigger or chigoe may be a name for these small mites, but it is also the name for Tunga penetrans, a flea species known to burry itself in the skin. This ambivalence doesn't seem good to me. Can someone sort out which species should be named what? I can't do it myself, being a non-native speaker in a non-English speaking country I have no access to relevant literature. Scarabaeoid (talk) 03:17, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Confusion of categories between French and English pages
This article about the genus is linked to the French article Aoûtat (Trombicula autumnalis) which is a sub-category. The French Aoûtat page doesn't link back to this English Trombicula article but refers correctly to the English page of Trombicula autumnalis. The name Vendengeon I have personally heard in the Dordogne region. The other synonym for Aoûtat "Rouget" is also used in different contexts. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouget_%28homonymie%29 82.169.57.140 (talk) 00:39, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect photo & other issues
1. The poor quality image currently shown on this page is a larval "seed" tick. 2. Chiggers max out at ~0.2mm, not 0.4, which is presumably based on the incorrect photo. 3. Chigoe is not an alternative name for the chigger mite. Rather, chigger is an alternative name for the chigoe flea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.240.230.37 (talk) 23:11, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 29 December 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

Trombicula → Trombiculidae – redundant information and redundant page - chiggers and chigger should both redirect to Trombiculidae. David Harris (talk) 01:17, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Individual genera maintain separate articles from their parent taxa. If there are multiple genera within Trombiculidae that are quite commonly known as chiggers, then I agree that both the singular chigger and plural chiggers should redirect there. If instead Trombicula is almost always meant when people refer to "chiggers", then both should redirect there. —Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 02:39, 29 December 2020 (UTC)


 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

P.S. a next step might be to start a redirect discussion for chigger and chiggers. I'd be happy to help since I know navigating the "backend" of Wikipedia can be super convoluted. —Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 03:06, 29 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Since the pages (Trombicula and Trombiculidae) will be kept separate, but a lot of information on the two pages is redundant information, how do we clean up the two pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrisd5917 (talk • contribs) 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's a problem with text occurring in two places. —Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 21:42, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

"Chigger" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Chigger. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 30 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. MB 22:01, 30 December 2020 (UTC)