Ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from Costa Rican hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae), with description of three new species and a key to the Proctolaelaps belemensis species group
Author
Dusbabek, Frantisek
Author
Literak, Ivan
Author
Capek, Miroslav
Author
Havlicek, Martin
text
Zootaxa
2007
1484
51
67
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.176933
9ef8836f-2742-4a4e-b2ea-746c0c6e06f9
1175-5326
176933
Tropicoseius
cf.
trinitatis
(
Fain
et al
., 1977
)
The species was described from
Glaucis hirsutus
(Gmelin, 1788)
and also collected on
Phaethornis guy
in
Trinidad
(
Fain
et al
., 1977a
, b).
OConnor
et al
. (1991)
collected the mite from the same host and from flowers of
Heliconia hirsuta
and
H
.
bihai
(Heliconiaceae)
. The
Heliconia
spp. are probably exclusive host plants of this mite in
Trinidad
(Naskrecki & Colwell, 1998). This is the first record of it outside
Trinidad
.
Material examined.
One female from
Phaethornis superciliosus
, Hitoy Cerere
BR,
August 2004
, coll. I. Literak.