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Philoxanthornea Kethley

Description

Genus Philoxanthornea Kethley

Philoxanthornea Kethley, 1970: 50. Type-species: Philoxanthornea anoa Kethley, 1970, by original designation.

anoa Kethley, 1970: 53, figs. 30, 31.

Type material. Holotype female at USNM, paratypes: females, males at USNM, UGA. Hosts and distribution. Anous tenuirostris (type host) (Charadriiformes: Laridae), type-locality: USA, Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Pacific Ocean (Kethley 1970).

Habitat. Unknown.

clarki Kivganov, 1995: 87, fig. 5.

Type material. Holotype female at author’s collection, paratypes: female, males at author’s collection. Hosts and distribution. Sternula albifrons (type host) (Charadriiformes: Laridae), type-locality: UKRAINE, Odessa Prov., Tiligulski liman (Kivganov & Sharafat 1995); Larus canus (Laridae), RUSSIA, (ZISP) (Bochkov & Mironov 1998); Sterna hirundo (Laridae), POLAND, (AMU, ZISP, ZSM) (Skoracki et al. 2006). Habitat. Covert feathers.

dubinini Bochkov and Mironov, 1998: 14, figs. 31–35.

Type material. Holotype female at ZISP (T-Sy-8), paratypes: females at ZISP. Hosts and distribution. Gelochelidon nilotica (type host) (Charadriiformes: Laridae), type-locality: KAZAKHSTAN, Sorbulak Lake, near Alma-Ata (Bochkov & Mironov 1998); Chlidonias leucopterus (Laridae), EGYPT, (AMU, ZSM, UMMZ, ZISP) (Skoracki et al. 2006).

Habitat. Unknown.

Other

Published as part of Glowska, Eliza, Chrzanowski, Mateusz & Kaszewska, Katarzyna, 2015, Checklist of the Quill mites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) of the World, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 3968 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3968.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288815

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Syringophilidae
Genus
Philoxanthornea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kethley
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Kethley, J. B. (1970) A revision of the family Syringophilidae (Prostigmata: Acarina). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 5, 1 - 76.
  • Kivganov, D. A. & Sharafat, G. S. (1995) Review of the family Syringophilidae (Acari) with the description of new genera and species. Zoologichesky Zhurnal, 74, 82 - 91. [in Russian]
  • Bochkov, A. V. & Mironov, S. V. (1998) Quill mites of the family Syringophilidae Lavoipierre, 1953 (Acariformes: Prostigmata) parasitic on birds (Aves) of the fauna of the former USSR. Acarina, 6, 3 - 16.
  • Skoracki, M., Dabert, J. & Schmaschke, R. (2006) Observations on the quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) from charadriiform birds. Zootaxa, 1156, 51 - 64.