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Issue: Vol. 27 No. 1: 4 Apr. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-04-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.27.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 5

New ectoparasitic mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Cheyletoidea) associated with birds from Argentina

Dartment of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, 28 Czerwca 1956/198; 61-485 Poznan, Poland
Dartment of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, 28 Czerwca 1956/198; 61-485 Poznan, Poland
Acari Syringophilidae ectoparasites quill mites birds Argentina

Abstract

Five species and one undetermined species, belonging to six genera of the Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata), are recorded from Argentina (South America). Two new species are described and figured: Syringophiloidus tarnii sp. n. from the Huet-huet Pteroptochos tarni (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) and Aulobia paraguaiae sp. n. from the Magellan Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae). Four new host species of the family Syringophilidae are given.

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