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Issue: Vol. 1103 No. 1: 22 Dec. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-12-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1103.1.3
Page range: 27–39
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of the feather mite genus Dicrurobius Mironov, 2001 (Acari: Astigmata: Pteronyssidae) from drongos (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) in Africa

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, rue Vautier 29, B-1000, Bruxelles, Belgique
Acari Analgoidea Pteronyssidae Dicrurobius new species Dicruridae Africa

Abstract

Two new species of the feather mite genus Dicrurobius Mironov, 2001 are described from drongos (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) in Africa: Dicrurobius alatus sp. n. from Dicrurus atripennis Swainson, 1837 and D. cameroonensis sp. n. from Dicrurus adsimilis (Bechstein, 1794). New data on host associations and distribution of the sole formerly known species, D. monacrotrichus (Gaud, 1952), are given. A key to three Dicrurobius species known to date is presented.

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