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Issue: Vol. 5330 No. 3: 16 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.3.2
Page range: 349-374
Abstract views: 178
PDF downloaded: 23

New feather mites of the genus Neodectes (Acariformes: Proctophyllodidae) from honeyeaters (Passeriformes: Meliphagidae) in Australia

Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Universitetskaya Embankment 1; 199034; Saint Petersburg; Russia
Department of Biological Sciences; University of Alberta; Edmonton; Alberta; T6G 2E9; Canada
Acari Astigmata Aves birds ectosymbionts new host records systematics

Abstract

Five new species of the genus Neodectes Park and Atyeo, 1971 (Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae) are described from honeyeaters (Passeriformes: Meliphagidae) in Australia: Neodectes cissomelae sp. n. from Cissomela pectoralis (Gould) (type host) and Melithreptus gularis laetior Gould; N. hallidayi sp. n. from Anthochaera carunculata (Shaw) (type host) and A. chrysoptera (Latham); N. manorinae sp. n. from Manorina melanocephala (Latham); N. ophioglossus sp. n. from Conopophila rufogularis (Gould) (type host) and Lichmera indistincta (Vigors and Horsfield); and N. walteri sp. n. from Anthochaera phrygia (Shaw). A key to species and a world checklist to Neodectes species are provided for the first time. A new combination, Neodectes dicranochaetus (Gaud, 1968) comb. n., is proposed for Proterothrix dicranochaeta Gaud, 1968, which is transferred herein to the genus Neodectes from Proterothrix Gaud, 1968 (Proctophyllodidae).

 

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