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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3
401
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journal article
30335
10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1
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1175-5326
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Coboydaia amandavae
(Fain, 1962)
Boydaia amandavae
Fain, 1962c
: 363
, figs. 1–5, 10–14, 1963d: 58, 67, 76, fig. 20, 1970: 319, figs. 19–20. Holotype in RMCA, examined.
Coboydaia amandavae
,
Fain 1971
: 101
, 107, 112, figs. 41–43.
Type host:
Sporaeginthus subflavus
(Vieillot)
(
Passeriformes
:
Estrildidae
) from Central Africa.
Diagnosis.
Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Setae
ve
present. Sensillae SEa-type. Agenital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–0, trochanters 0–0–0–0, femora 6–4–3–1, genua 4– 4–3–2, tibiae 5–3–2–2. In larvae, antaxial and paraxial claws of leg I short, subequal, and sharp-ended.
Host and distribution.
Passeriformes (Estrildidae)
:
SpOraeginthus subflavus
(Vieillot)
from Central Africa (
Fain 1962c
).
Non-African hosts and distribution.
Estrildidae
:
Amandava amandava
(Linnaeus)
from
Indonesia
(
Fain 1963d
),
Erythrura prasina
(Sparman)
from captivity in
Belgium
(Fain 1970) but originally distributed in the
Oriental
region (
Clements
et al
. 2016
).