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Issue: Vol. 2922 No. 1: 17 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2922.1.4
Page range: 34–40
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A new species and new host records of syringophilid mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) from passerines from Kenya

Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego St. 71 C, 60-625 Poznań, Poland Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Prešov University of Prešov, 17th November St. 1., 081 16 Prešov, Slovakia Centre of Excellence for Animal and Human Ecology, University of Prešov, 17th November St., 081 16 Prešov, Slovakia Department of Zoology, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, Museum Hill Road, P.O. Box 40658, P.C. 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Acari Syringophilidae quill mites Ethiopian region Kenya

Abstract

Syringophilopsis dicruri sp. nov. (Acari: Syringophilidae) ex Dicrurus adsimilis (Bechstein) (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) from Kenya is described. Five new hosts are recorded for 4 syringophilid species: Chlorocichla flaviventris (Smith) and Andropadus latirostris Strickland (Pycnonotidae) for Syringophilopsis veselovsky Skoracki et al., 2009; Ploceus vitellinus Vieillot (Ploceidae) for S. nitens Skoracki and Dabert, 2001; Acrocephalus palustris (Bechstein) (Sylviidae) for Neoaulonastus bisetatus (Fritsch, 1958) and Cyanomitra olivacea (Smith) (Nectariinidae) for Picobia oritis Skoracki et al., 2009. The syringophilid fauna of the Ethiopian region is summarized in table.

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