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Issue: Vol. 3406 No. 1: 1 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3406.1.4
Page range: 59–66
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 2

New picobiin mites (Acari: Syringophilidae: Picobiinae) associated with woodcreeper birds (Passeriformes: Dendrocolaptidae)

Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine I, 10 Fredry Street, Poznan, Poland
Acari Syringophilidae Picobiinae quill mites ectoparasites birds Dendrocolaptidae

Abstract

Two new species belonging to the genus Rafapicobia Skoracki, 2011 (Syringophilidae: Picobiinae) collected from birdsof the family Dendrocolaptidae are described: 1) Rafapicobia dendrocolaptesi sp. nov. from Dendrocolaptes platyrostrisSpix (type host) in Paraguay and from D. picumnus Lichtenstein in Argentina; 2) Rafapicobia lepidocolaptesi sp. nov.from Lepidocolaptes affinis (Lafresnaye) (type host) in Ecuador and Venezuela and from L. souleyetii (Des Murs) in Colombia. Syringophilid mites are recorded from woodcreepers for the first time.

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