Prelude to a study of the feather mites of Australia (Acariformes: Astigmata) Author HALLIDAY, R. B. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-05-09 5280 1 1 73 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5280.1.1 journal article 54455 10.11646/zootaxa.5280.1.1 a3384e49-2a34-4e14-8651-90cd896e0df4 1175-5326 7912198 E89D81FE-D079-41B7-9FF4-4933D620B89D Loriprotolichus falculiger (Trouessart, 1884) Pterolichus ( Protolichus ) falculiger Trouessart, 1884a: 531 . Pterolichus ( Protolichus ) falculiger Trouessart & Mégnin, 1885a: 65 . Pterolichus ( Protolichus ) falculiger .— Berlese 1897: 60 ; Canestrini & Kramer 1899: 58 ; Rainbow 1906: 184 ; Cleland 1922: 100 ; Gaud & Atyeo 1996a: 117 . Protolichus ( Mesolichus ) falculiger .— Favette & Trouessart 1904: 154 . Protolichus falculiger .— Radford 1953: 211 , 1958: 135 . Apexolichus falculiger .— Mironov et al . 2003b: 186 . Loriprotolichus falculiger .— Mironov & Dabert 2007: 393 ; Mironov et al . 2011: 81 . Host and locality in Australia : Nanodes australis , Australia (Trouessart 1884a, Trouessart & Mégnin 1885a ), Glossopsittacus concinnus ( Nanodes australis ), Australia ( Canestrini & Kramer 1899 ; Favette & Trouessart 1904 ; Rainbow 1906 ; Mironov et al . 2011 ); Glossopsitta concinna , Australia ( Cleland 1922 ). Current name of host : Musk Lorikeet, Glossopsitta concinna (Shaw, 1791) ( Psittaciformes : Psittaculidae ). Notes : Mironov & Dabert (2007) included this species in a key as Loriprotolichus falculiger ( Favette & Trouessart 1904 ) comb. nov. (page 389), and re-described the same species as Loriprotolichus falculiger (Trouessart, 1884) comb. nov. (page 393). The designation of a holotype for this species by Mironov & Dabert (2007) was not valid or necessary, because the single specimen examined by Trouessart (1884) and Favette & Trouessart (1904) was already the holotype by monotypy.