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Issue: Vol. 1961 No. 1: 10 Dec. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-12-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1961.1.5
Page range: 58–68
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 1

Four new species of the quill mite genus Picobia Heller, 1880 (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing birds in the Australian Region

Department of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Department of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Department of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Acari Syringophilidae quill mites ectoparasites new taxa Australia New Guinea Picobia

Abstract

Descriptions of four new species of the genus Picobia are given: P. lemi sp. nov. from Manucodia chalybatus (Forster) (type host) and from Manucodia ater (Lesson) (Passeriformes: Paradisaeidae) from New Guinea; P. epthianura sp. nov. from Epthianura aurifrons Gould (Passeriformes: Meliphagidae); P. corcoracus sp. nov. from Corcorax melanorhamphos (Vieillot) (Passeriformes: Grallinidae) and P. glossopsitta sp. nov. from Glossopsitta porphyrocephala (Dietrichsen) (Psittaciformes: Psittacidae) from Australia. A list of all known species of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) parasitizing birds of Australian Region is provided.

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