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- Title
A new genus of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Cheyletoidea) associated with mousebirds (Aves: Coliiformes).
- Authors
Skoracki, Maciej; Unsoeld, Markus; Ozminski, Michał
- Abstract
A new monotypic genus Colisyringophilus n. g. is established for C. tanzanicus n. sp., quill mites parasitising two mouse bird species from Tanzania, Colius striatus Gmelin and Urocolius macrourus (Linnaeus). This new genus is closely related to Neoaulobia Fain, Bochkov & Mironov, 2000, but differs from it by the following features: the stylophore is rounded posteriorly, the propodonotal shield is reduced to triangular sclerite bearing bases of setae vi and ve, the hysteronotal shield is absent, legs I are longer than legs II, and apodemes I are distinctly elongated. This is the first record of syringophilid mites from hosts of the order Coliiformes.
- Subjects
TANZANIA; SYRINGOPHILIDAE; COLIUS (Birds); ANIMAL species; SCLEREIDS; ANIMAL-plant relationships
- Publication
Systematic Parasitology, 2013, Vol 85, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
0165-5752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11230-013-9427-6