A new quill mite species (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitising tinamous (Aves: Tinamiformes).

Abstract:

:Tinamiphilopsis ariconte n. sp., a syringophilid mite, is described from three tinamou species (Tinamidae), Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck) and Nothura boraquira (Spix) in Paraguay and N. minor (Spix) in Brazil. These data indirectly support the hypothesis that the cheyletoid-like predatory ancestor of the Syringophilidae switched to parasitism before the divergence of the avian hosts into the two major clades Palaeognathae and Neognathae.

journal_name

Syst Parasitol

journal_title

Systematic parasitology

authors

Skoracki M,Sikora B,Ozminski M

doi

10.1007/s11230-011-9329-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-02-01 00:00:00

pages

109-13

issue

2

eissn

0165-5752

issn

1573-5192

journal_volume

81

pub_type

杂志文章