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Issue: Vol. 2514 No. 1: 22 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2514.1.6
Page range: 61–67
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

Meitingsunes, a new genus of quill mites (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae)

Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Acari Syringophilidae quill mites ectoparasites Meitingsunes

Abstract

A new genus of syringophilid mites Meitingsunes gen. nov. (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) inhabiting quills of columbiform birds is established. The new genus is closely related to Peristerophila Kethley but distinguished from it by the smooth hypostomal apex and divergent apodemes I not fused to apodemes II. This new genus includes one new species, M. aldwelles sp. nov. described from quills of Geotrygon frenata (Tschudi) from Colombia, and two named species moved from Peristerophila: M. tympanistria (Skoracki et Dabert, 2002) comb. nov. and M. zenadourae (Clark, 1964) comb. nov. [type species].

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