A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region
Author
Skoracki, Maciej
Author
Schmidt, Karl-Heinz
Author
Marciniak, Natalia
Author
Marciniak, Martyna
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-05
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10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1
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Boydaia spatulata
Fain, 1956
Boydaia sturni
var.
spatulata
Fain, 1955b
: 695
. Holotype in RMCA, examined.
Boydaia spatulata
Fain, 1956a
: 47
, 49, 50, fig. 28; 1956b: 650, 651, figs. 4–6, 1956c: 33, 1958a: 10, fig. 18;
Domrow 1969
: 381
, figs. 223–226; Pence 1973b: 879, 1973c: 887; Zabludovskaya 2002: 93.
Boydaia (Boydaia) spatulata
,
Fain 1960a
: 114
, 1963d: 56
, 67, fig. 15, 1971: 100, 108, figs. 1, 18.
Type host:
Cercotrichas hartlaubi
(Reichenow)
(
Passeriformes
:
Muscicapidae
) from Rwanda.
Diagnosis.
Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Setae
ve
present. Setae
vi
situated posterior to level of setae
si
. Sensillae SEa-type. Agenital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–0, trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 7–4–3–3, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–3–3. All setae on genu and tibia of leg I similar in shape. Claws without basal angles. In larvae, antaxial and paraxial claw pair of leg I unequal, antaxial sharpended, paraxial blunt-ended.
Hosts and distribution.
Passeriformes (Acrocephalidae)
:
Iduna similis
Richmond from Rwanda [Akanyaru/ Butare region] (
Fain 1956a
).
Cisticolidae
:
SchistOlais
leucOpOgOn reichenOwi
(Hartlaub) from Rwanda [Akanyaru/Butare region] (
Fain 1956a
).
Motacillidae
:
MacrOnyx
crOceus
(Vieillot) from Rwanda [Akanyaru/Butare region] (
Fain 1956a
).
Muscicapidae
:
CercOtrichas hartlaubi
(Reichenow)
,
POgOnOcichla stellata
ruwenzOrii
(Ogilvie-Grant),
Sheppardia
pOliOptera
Reichenow, all from
Rwanda
[Akanyaru/Butare region] (
Fain 1956a
,
b
), and
CercOmela tractrac
(Wilkes)
from
Botswana
[
Southern
Prov., Kokong] (
Fain 1960a
).
Paridae
:
Melaniparus
leucOmelas
insignis
Cabanis
(org.
Parus niger insignis
) from Rwanda [Akanyaru/Butare region] (
Fain 1956a
).
Pycnonotidae
:
PycnOnOtus barbatus
(Desfontaines)
from Guinea (Zabludovskaya 2002).
Non-African hosts and distribution.
Passeriformes (Meliphagidae)
:
CissOmela
pectOralis
(Gould),
PhilemOn
citreOgularis
(Gould), and
P. cOrniculatus
(Latham) all from Australia (
Domrow 1969
).
Thraupidae
:
Tiaris
canOrus
(Gmelin) (=
PhOnipara
canOra
) and
Tangara
sp. from captivity in Belgium (
Fain 1958a
).
Turdidae
:
Sialia sialis
(Linnaeus)
from USA (Pence 1973).
Remarks.
Fain (1971)
reported this species from
COssypha natalensis
Smith
, although labels on the original slides and data from the previous paper (Fain 1963) indicates that the host was
Shepardia
(
=
COssypha
)
pOliOptera
.
In the paper of
Fain (1956a
: 49–50, 1956b: 653)
BOydaia spatulata
was also reported by misidentification from the following avian species:
AgricOla pallidus griseus
(Reichenow) (Muscicapidae)
(currently a host of
BOydaia bradOrnis
Fain, 1956
),
MOnticOla angOlensis
(de Sousa) and
SaxicOla tOrquatus axillaris
(Shelley) (Muscicapidae)
(currently the hosts of
BOydaia saxicOlae
Fain, 1969
);
SchOenicOla
brevirOstris alexinae
(Heuglin) (
Locustellidae
) (currently a host of
BOydaia zumpti
Fain, 1956
),
ChalcOmitra senegalensis lamperti
(Reichenow)
and
CyanOmitra verticalis viridisplendens
(Reichenow) (Nectariniidae)
(currently the hosts of
BOydaia nectarinia
Fain, 1958
).