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Issue: Vol. 3765 No. 2: 17 Feb. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.7
Page range: 194–200
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new quill mite species of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) parasitising the house sparrow Passer domesticus (L.) (Aves: Passeriformes)

Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.
Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.
Acari Syringophilidae quill mites ectoparasites of birds Passer domesticus

Abstract

Two new quill mite species of the family Syringophilidae, Picobia passeri sp. nov. and Krantziaulonastus dubinini sp. nov., are described from quills of the body feathers of the house sparrow Passer domesticus (L.) (Passeriformes: Passeridae) from the European part of Russia.