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Issue: Vol. 4052 No. 5: 7 Dec. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-12-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.5.7
Page range: 583–588
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Two new species of the syringophilid quill mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitizing apodiform birds (Aves: Apodiformes)

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

Abstract

Two new syringophilid species (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) are described, Apodisyringiana hirundapi sp. nov. from Hirundapus caudacutus (Latham) from Japan and Syringophiloidus apus sp. nov. from Apus melba (Linnaeus) from Chile.

 

How to Cite

Skoracki, M., Kaszewska, K. & Kavetska, K. (2015)

Two new species of the syringophilid quill mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitizing apodiform birds (Aves: Apodiformes)

. Zootaxa, 4052 (5), 583–588. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4052.5.7