Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) associated with galliform birds (Aves: Galliformes) Author Skoracki, Maciej Author Sikora, Bozena text Zootaxa 2011 2966 13 30 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.278233 56550e84-9fd5-4ac0-b6cd-2ad19501b06d 1175-5326 278233 Genus Syringophilus Heller, 1880 Syringophilus Heller, 1880 : 186 . Type species: Syringophilus bipectinatus Heller, 1880 by monotypy. This genus includes large quill mites (total body length 920–1240 ). Females of this species have large gnathosoma devoid protuberances, numerously-chambered branches of peritremes, well developed dorsal and ventral sclerotizations, ornamented propodonotal setae (but more delicately than in representants of Colinophilus ), and with full complement of body and leg setae. At present, the genus Syringophilus includes two species, S. bipectinatus Haller and S. numidae Bochkov. First species has worldwide distribution and parasitizing phasianid birds as follow: Gallus gallus domesticus , Alectoris rufa and Ptilopachus petrosus . The second species is known only from Numida meleagris ( Numididae ). Representants of S. bipectinatus parasitizing domestic hen were noted from quills of primaries, secondaries, coverts, alulars and tertials, but the most infested feathers are primaries and secondaries ( Pires & Daemon 2007 ).