A new genus of syringophilid mites (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) from cuculiform birds (Aves: Cuculiformes).

Abstract:

:Cuculisyringophilus crotophaginus gen. n. et sp. n. is described from the guira cuckoo Guira guira (Gmelin) from Paraguay and also was collected from the groove-billed ani Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson from Colombia and Mexico. This new genus is closely related to Neoaulobia Fain, Bochkov et Mironov, 2000 but is distinguished by the following characters: propodosomal setae sce are situated distinctly anterior to level of setae d1, leg setae vs'II are absent, apodemes I are divergent.

journal_title

Folia parasitologica

authors

Skoracki M

doi

10.14411/fp.2008.021

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-06-01 00:00:00

pages

155-8

issue

2

eissn

0015-5683

issn

1803-6465

journal_volume

55

pub_type

杂志文章