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Issue: Vol. 3167 No. 1: 20 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3167.1.6
Page range: 57–65
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new species of quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing the wrens (Aves: Troglodytidae)

Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Laboratory of Biology and Ecology of Parasites, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Judyma 20, 71–466 Szczecin, Poland
Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Acari Syringophilidae quill mites ectoparasites birds Troglodytidae

Abstract

Three new species of syringophilid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Cheyletoidea) associated with birds of the family Troglo-dytidae (Aves: Passeriformes) are described: Syringophiloidus microcerculus Sikora & Skoracki sp. nov. from Microcer-culus marginatus (Sclater) from Brasil, Aulonastus henicorhina Sikora & Skoracki sp. nov. from Henicorhina leucosticta(Cabanis) from Ecuador, and Picobia troglodytidus Sikora & Skoracki sp. nov. from Henicorhina leucophrys (Tschudi) from Costa Rica.

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