Feather mites of the genus Trouessartia Canestrini (Acariformes: Trouessartiidae) from swallows (Passeriformes: Hirundinidae) in Canada
Author
Mironov, Sergey V.
Author
Galloway, Terry D.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-19
4568
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journal article
28338
10.11646/zootaxa.4568.1.1
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Trouessartia ripariae
Mironov, 1983
(
Figs. 19
D–F, 21E–G)
Trouessartia ripariae
Mironov, 1983
: 366
, figs. 2c, 4;
Gaud & Atyeo 1987
: 378
, figs. 1h, 2h, 4h, 5h.
Material examined
.
8 males
,
8 females
(ZISP 7500–7515) from
Riparia riparia
(Linnaeus, 1758)
(
Passeriformes
:
Hirundinidae
),
CANADA
,
Manitoba
, Oak Hammock Marsh, 2008, coll. T.D. Galloway and S.R. Repa.
Trouessartia ripariae
is known exclusively from the sand martin,
Riaparia
riparia
, throughout most of its range in both hemispheres. Originally this mite species was described from the European part of
Russia
(
Mironov 1983
); further, it was recorded on this host in northern Africa (
Morocco
,
Ethiopia
), eastern and South
East Asia
(
Japan
,
Malesia
,
Thailand
) and in North America (
USA
,
Canada
) (
Gaud & Atyeo 1987
; Galloway
et al
. 2014).