<p><strong>New taxa of the subfamily Picobiinae (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing antbirds and gnateaters (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae, Conopophagidae) in Guyana</strong></p>

ELIZA GLOWSKA; BRIAN K. SCHMIDT

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3861.2.7

Issue: Vol. 3861 No. 2: 12 Sept. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-09-12

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3861.2.7

Page range: 193–200

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New taxa of the subfamily Picobiinae (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing antbirds and gnateaters (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae, Conopophagidae) in Guyana

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 Phipicobia Rafapicobia antbirds gnateaters systematics

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Abstract

A new genus and three new species of the picobiin quill mites (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) are described from passeriform birds in Guyana, Phipicobia pygiptilae gen. nov. and sp. nov. parasitizing Pygiptila stellaris (Spix) (Thamnophilidae), Rafapicobia thamnophili sp. nov. from Thamnophilus insignis Salvin et Godman (type host), Myrmoborus leucophrys (Tschudi), Myrmeciza ferruginea (St. Müller), Myrmotherula longipennis Pelzeln, and Hypocnemis cantator (Boddaert) (Thamnophilidae), and Rafapicobia milenskyi sp. nov. from Conopophaga aurita (Gmelin) (Conopophagidae).