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Issue: Vol. 3253 No. 1: 2 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3253.1.2
Page range: 54–61
Abstract views: 105
PDF downloaded: 51

A new feather mite species of the genus Proctophyllodes Robin, 1877 (Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae) from the Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus (Passeriformes: Aegithalidae)—morphological description with DNA barcode data

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya quay 1, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Department of Animal Morphology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Acari Astigmata feather mites Proctophyllodidae new species DNA barcoding COI D2 28S rRNA nondestructive DNA extraction

Abstract

A new feather mites species, Proctophyllodes valchukae sp. n., is described from the Long-tailed Tit, Aegithalos caudatus(Linnaeus, 1758) (Passeriformes: Aegithalidae), captured in the Primoriye (Russian Far East). The new species belongsto the tricetratus species group and is most closely related to P. stachyris Atyeo et Braasch, 1966. For the first time forfeather mites the standard morphological description is supplemented by sequence data of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene fragment (COI) and nuclear D2 region of 28S rDNA.

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