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Three new species of the feather mite genus Trouessartia (Acariformes: Trouessartiidae) from passerines (Passeriformes) in the Asian part of Russia

Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Universitetskaya Embankment 1; 199034; Saint Petersburg; Russia
Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Universitetskaya Embankment 1; 199034; Saint Petersburg; Russia
Acari Feather mites Trouessartia systematics host associations Asian russia DNA barcodes

Abstract

Three new species of the feather mite genus Trouessartia are described from passerines from various regions in the Asian part of Russia: Trouessartia locustellae sp. nov. from the Pallas’s grasshopper warbler Helopsaltes certhiola (Pallas) (type host) and the Middendorff’s grasshopper warbler H. ochotensis (Middendorff) (Locustellidae), T. mugimaki sp. nov. from the mugimaki flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki (Temminck) (Muscicapidae), and T. pyrrhulae sp. nov. from the Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula Linnaeus (Fringillidae). Descriptions and differential diagnoses are supplemented with sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (CO1).

 

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Mironov, S.V. & Dmitryukov, A.V. (2025) Three new species of the feather mite genus Trouessartia (Acariformes: Trouessartiidae) from passerines (Passeriformes) in the Asian part of Russia. Zootaxa, 5661 (2), 178–200. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5661.2.2