A review of the subfamily Picobiinae Johnston and Kethley, 1973 (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae)
Author
Skoracki, Maciej
Author
Sikora, Bozena
Author
Spicer, Greg S.
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Zootaxa
2016
2016-05-19
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Picobia phoeniculi
Fain, Bochkov and Mironov, 2000
(
Figs. 48
A–C)
Picobia phoeniculi
Fain
et al
., 2000: 69
, figs. 110–117;
Skoracki
et al
. 2004: 168
;
Skoracki 2011: 328
;
Skoracki & Hromada 2013: 206
, figs. 10–12.
Types
deposited in RBINS, examined.
Type
host:
Phoeniculus purpureus
(Coraciiformes:
Phoeniculidae
).
Type
locality:
Rwanda
.
Additional material.
One female (NPF) and
1 female
(PF) from
Upupa epops epops
Linnaeus
(Coraciiformes:
Upupidae
),
NEPAL
: Khumbu, Chukhung (Himalayas, S. Mount Everest), elev.
4,800 m
. a.s.l.,
29 August 1962
, all material in AMU;
2 females
(PF) from same host species,
MACEDONIA
: Uskub, Ljubliana,
15 April 1918
, coll. F. Doflein, all material in AMU;
1 female
(PF) from same host species,
KAZAKHSTAN
: Semipalatinsk,
14 July 1922
, coll. P. P. Schestowsky, specimen in AMU;
1 female
(NPF) and
2 females
(PF) from same host species,
PAKISTAN
: N.W. Frontier Prov., Malakand Div., Swat Distr., Yakh Tangai,
2,076 m
. a.s.l.,
23 April 1990
, coll. S. M. Goodman, all material in FMNH.
Host range and distribution.
Metastenoxenous species associated with the coraciiform birds (Coraciiformes):
Phoeniculus purpureus
(Muller) (Phoeniculidae)
from
Rwanda
(
Fain
et al
. 2000
),
Upupa epops africana
Bechstein (Upupidae)
from
Tanzania
(
Skoracki & Hromada 2013
) and
U. e. epops
Linnaeus
from
Kazakhstan
,
Macedonia
,
Nepal
, and
Pakistan
(present paper).