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Issue: Vol. 4137 No. 4: 13 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.10
Page range: 578–584
Abstract views: 54
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Two new species of quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) associated with the Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike Prionops scopifrons (Peters) (Passeriformes: Vangidae) in Kenya

Laboratory and Museum of Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia.
Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Laboratory and Museum of Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia. Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Szafrana 1, 65–516 Zielona Góra, Poland
Acari ectoparasites Kenya quill mites Syringophilidae Vangidae

Abstract

Two new species of syringophilid mites collected from Prionops scopifrons (Peters) (Passeriformes: Vangidae) in Kenya are described: Neoaulonastus prionops sp. nov. and Picobia meru sp. nov. They are the first syringophilid records from birds of the family Vangidae.

 

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