The feather mites of the hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin (Müller) (Aves: Opisthocomiformes), with the description of two new genera and six new species (Acari: Analgoidea, Pterolichoidea)
Author
Hernandes, Fabio A.
Author
Mironov, Sergey V.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4034
3
401
444
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4034.3.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Temnalges
Gaud and Atyeo, 1967
Type
species:
Temnalges mesalgoides
Gaud & Atyeo, 1967
, by original designation.
The genus
Temnalges
was established by
Gaud and Atyeo (1967)
and originally included a single species,
Temnalges mesalgoides
from
Porphyrio madagascariensis
(Latham)
(
Gruiformes
:
Rallidae
). Soon after,
Gaud (1968)
described one more species,
T. megalonyx
Gaud, 1968
, also from a rallid host,
Amaurornis flavirostra
(Swainson)
.
Gaud (1976)
moved
Psoroptoides bothrioplax
Gaud, 1958
described from
Chlidonias niger
(Linnaeus)
(
Charadriiformes
:
Laridae
) to the genus
Temnalges
. Further,
Shereef and Rakha (1981)
described two species from two more aquatic bird orders:
T. amalichus
Shereef and Rakha, 1981
from
Plegadis falcinellus
Linnaeus
(
Pelecaniformes
:
Threskiornithidae
) and
T. mahranus
Shereef and Rakha, 1981
from
Anas querquedula
Linnaeus
(
Anseriformes
:
Anatidae
).
Among eight genera of the subfamily
Pandalurinae
, the genus
Temnalges
is most clearly characterized by the following combination of features: in both sexes, internal vertical setae
vi
are absent (in species from rallids) or present, epimerites I are free, ventral extensions of tarsi I are poorly expressed or absent, extensions of tarsi II are variable in form, rounded or acute; in males, epimerites II and III are not connected to each other, coxal fields III are open, opisthosomal lobes are poorly expressed, without distinct digits and membranes, tarsus IV is shorter than corresponding tibia and without a digit bearing seta
e
; in females, only setae
h2
are represented by macrosetae on the posterior margin of the body, and the hysteronotal shield is rectangular in form (
Gaud & Atyeo 1967
;
Mironov 2004
, 2007).