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n. [Gr. leptos, thin; It. tromba, trumpet](ARTHROPODA: Chelicerata)The slender larva of the thrombiculid mite that transmits Tsutsugamushi disease, also known as Japanese flood fever or scrub typhus.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.