Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the blue-throated blue flycatcher, Cyornis rubeculoides (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae)
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DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1280194
Abstract: ABSTRACT The paper describes two new species of feather mites collected from the blue-throated blue flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides (Vigors) (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae) in India (Meghalaya): Trouessartia kharkhanensis Constantinescu et al. sp. nov. (Trouessartiidae) and Proterothrix cyornissimilis… read more here.
Keywords: throated blue; blue throated; species feather; two new ... See more keywords
Host specificity, infrequent major host switching and the diversification of highly host-specific symbionts: The case of vane-dwelling feather mites
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DOI: 10.1111/geb.12680
Abstract: Aim Highly host-specific symbionts are very rarely found except with their typical host species. Although switches to new hosts are rare and difficult to detect, a switch to a host phylogenetically distant from the original… read more here.
Keywords: diversification; host; highly host; feather mites ... See more keywords
Redescription of two parasitic feather mites sampled from the last two Crested Ibises, Nipponia nippon (Temminck, 1835) (Pelecaniformes: Threskiornithidae), lived in Japan.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5116.1.7
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to redescribe two feather mites, Compressalges nipponiae Dubinin, 1950 (Caudiferidae) and Freyanopterolichus nipponiae Dubinin, 1953 (Kramerellidae), based on samples collected from the last two individuals of the Crested Ibis… read more here.
Keywords: temminck 1835; last two; nippon temminck; feather mites ... See more keywords
Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the Oriental Magpie-Robin, Copsychus saularis (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae)
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DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20184244
Abstract: Two new feather mite species from the bird host Copsychus saularis (Linnaeus) collected in Indonesia (Kalimantan) are described: Dolichodectes latilobus n. sp. (Proctophyllodidae, Pterodectinae), and Trouessartia saularis n. sp. (Trouessartiidae). The new species, Dolichodectes latilobus,… read more here.
Keywords: species feather; two new; new species; copsychus saularis ... See more keywords
Two new species of feather mites (Acariformes, Astigmata) from the black-tailed godwit, Limosalimosa (Charadriiformes, Scolopacidae), in Korea
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DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1088.80307
Abstract: Abstract Two new species of feather mites are described from two individuals of the black-tailed godwit, Limosalimosa (Linnaeus, 1758), in Korea: Alloptes (Conuralloptes) neolimosaesp. nov. (Analgoidea, Alloptidae) and Phyllochaetalimosaesp. nov. (Pterolichoidea, Syringobiidae). Males of A.… read more here.
Keywords: tailed godwit; black tailed; species feather; two new ... See more keywords