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Issue: Vol. 3768 No. 2: 25 Feb. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.2.5
Page range: 178–188
Abstract views: 99
PDF downloaded: 3

New taxa of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from African barbets and woodpeckers (Piciformes: Lybiidae, Picidae)

Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Presov, Presov, Slovakia
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Presov, Presov, Slovakia Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Gora, Szafrana 1, 65-516 Zielona Gora, Poland
Acari ectoparasites Lybiidae Picidae quill mites Syringophilidae taxonomy

Abstract

New taxa of quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) are described from African barbets and woodpeckers in the Ethiopian region. A new monotypic genus Picineoaulonastus gen. nov. is established for a new species Picineoaulonastus pogoniulus sp. nov., parasitising 2 lybiid species, Pogoniulus bilineatus (Sundevall) (type host) in Kenya and Tanzania and P. pusillus (Dumont) (Piciformes: Lybiidae) in Ethiopia. Additionally, 2 more new syringophilid species are described: Neosyringophilopsis lybidus sp. nov. from P. bilineatus in Kenya, and Syringophiloidus picidus sp. nov. from Dendropicos fuscescens (Vieillot) (Piciformes: Picidae) in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.