Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Analgoidea) from the Moustached Warbler, Acrocephalus melanopogon (Passeriformes, Acrocephalidae), in Romania
Author
Constantinescu, Ioana Cristina
Author
Chișamera, Gabriel
Author
Pocora, Viorel
Author
Stanciu, Cătălin
Author
Adam, Costică
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Zootaxa
2013
3709
3
267
276
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3709.3.5
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1175-5326
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Genus
Ingrassiella
Dubinin, 1949
The most morphologically distinctive character of the genus
Ingrassiella
,
differing it from other genera of the subfamily
Xolalginae
, is the presence of long and narrow extensions arising backward from the posterolateral angles of the prodorsal shield. To date, this genus includes six species from the following hosts:
Ingrassiella listrophoroides
Dubinin, 1949
from
Dendrocygna autumnalis
(L.) and
D. viduata
(L.) (
Anseriformes
:
Anatidae
);
I. acromiacantha
Gaud, 1962
from
Gerygone flavolateralis citrina
Mayr
(
Passeriformes
:
Acanthizidae
);
I. crassipoda
Gaud, 1970
from
Myiagra caledonica
Bonaparte
(
Passeriformes
:
Monarchidae
);
I. discigera
Gaud, 1973
from
T. iliacus
L.,
Turdus pilaris
L.,
T. viscivorus
L., and
Zoothera gurneyi
(Hartlaub)
(
Passeriformes
:
Turdidae
);
I. calcarata
Černý, 1975
from
Turdus nudigenis
Lafresnaye
(
Passeriformes
:
Turdidae
); and
I. spinosa
(
Trouessart and Neumann, 1888
)
from
Malurus cyanocephalus
Quoy and Gaimard
(
Passeriformes
:
Maluridae
).
Mc
Clure & Ratanaworabhan (1973)
reported 12 possible new species of the
Ingrassiella
on the birds from the families
Turdidae
,
Muscicapidae
and
Timaliidae
in Asia. Unfortunately these species have never been described.