Feather mites of the genera Dubininia and Cacatualges (Acari: Xolalgidae) associated with parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes) of the Old World
Author
Mironov, Sergey V.
Author
Ehrnsberger, Rainer
Author
Dabert, Jacek
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Zootaxa
2017
4272
4
451
490
journal article
32932
10.11646/zootaxa.4272.4.1
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Dubininia africana
Gaud, 1980
(
Figs. 10
,
12
E–H)
Dubininia africana
Gaud 1980
: 10
–13, figs. 1a–c;
Gaud and Atyeo 1981a
: 68
.
Material examined.
1 male
(AMU01759) from
Poicephalus rufiventris
(Ruppell) (Psittacidae)
(
UMB
1638
),
East
Africa, no other data
;
1 male
(AMU01760) from
P. cryptoxanthus
(Peters) (Psittacidae)
(
UMB
16235),
Tanzania
,
Mbinga District
, Matengo
Highlands
,
Ugano
,
1 April 1936
, coll. unknown.
Dubininia africana
was recorded by
Gaud (1980)
from various parrots in Africa:
Poicephalus senegalus
(Linnaeus)
(
type
host) in
Cameroon
,
P. gulielmi
(Jardine)
and
P. rufiventris
(Ruppell)
in
Kenia
,
P. robustus
(Gmelin)
in
Zaire
,
Psittacus erythacus
Linnaeus (Psittacidae)
in
Cameroon
, and
Agapornis pullarius
(Linnaeus) (Psittaculidae)
in
Cameroon
and Zaire. Associations of this mite with the two latter hosts look questionable and most probably these records were the results of contamination, since
Gaud
collected this material from museum skins.
Materials
of
Gaud
were not available for our study.
In
the present work,
Poicephalus cryptoxanthus
is a new host record for this mite.