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Issue: Vol. 4109 No. 4: 10 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.4.6
Page range: 479–486
Abstract views: 90
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new Meitingsunes species (Acari: Syringophilidae) from Indonesian doves (Columbiformes: Columbidae)

Departament of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Departament of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Laboratory of Biology and Ecology West Pomeranian University of Technology, Doktora Judyma 20, 71–466 Szczecin, Poland
Acari Columbiformes ectoparasites Meitingsunes quill mites Syringophilidae Indonesia

Abstract

We describe two new quill mite species of the genus Meitingsunes Glowska and Skoracki, 2010 (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitizing columbiform birds (Columbiformes: Columbidae): M. chalcophaps sp. nov. collected from the Emerald Dove, Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus) and M. turacoenas sp. nov. from the White-faced Cuckoo Dove, Turacoena manadensis (Quoy and Gaimard) (type host) and the Black Cuckoo-Dove, Turacoena modesta (Temminck). All host species were collected in Indonesia. These represent two new genus-level host records for Meitingsunes. In addition, we summarize the diversity of Meitingsunes and present a key to species in this genus.

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