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Issue: Vol. 91 No. 1: 31 Oct. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.91.1.1
Page range: 1–6
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 3

Picobia paludicola sp. n. a new species of quill mite (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) from the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola (Passeriformes: Sylviidae)

Department of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, 28 Czerwca 1956/ 198, 61-485 Poznan, Poland;
Department of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, 28 Czerwca 1956/ 198, 61-485 Poznan, Poland;
Acari Syringophilidae Picobia taxonomy ectoparasites quill mites

Abstract

A new quill mite species Picobia paludicola sp. n. is described from the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola (Passeriformes: Sylviidae) captured in Poland.

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