New quill mites (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing the black-headed paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer (Passeriformes: Monarchidae) in Gabon

ELIZA GLOWSKA; BRIAN K. SCHMIDT

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3786.1.3

Issue: Vol. 3786 No. 1: 8 Apr. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-04-08

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.1.3

Page range: 57–64

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**New quill mites (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing the black-headed paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer (Passeriformes: Monarchidae) in Gabon**

ELIZA GLOWSKA⁺⁻
BRIAN K. SCHMIDT⁺⁻

Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland

Smithsonian Institution, Division of Birds, PO Box 37012, MRC 116, Washington, DC 20013-7012

Quill mites Syringophilidae Pipicobia Syringophiloidus monarchid birds systematics

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Abstract

A new genus of quill mites (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) and two new species Pipicobia terpsiphoni gen. nov. and sp. nov. and Syringophiloidus furthi sp. nov. parasitizing the black-headed paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer (Swainson) (Passeriformes: Monarchidae) in Gabon are described. Three species of the Neopicobia Skoracki, 2011 are moved to the newly established genus: Pipicobia locustella (Skoracki, Bochkov and Wauthy, 2004) comb. nov., Pipicobia pyrrholaemus (Skoracki and Glowska, 2008) comb.nov., and Pipicobia glossopsitta (Skoracki, Glowska and Sikora, 2008) comb.nov. Syringophilids are recorded on hosts of the family Monarchidae and in Gabon for the first time. A key to the genera of the subfamily Picobiinae is proposed.