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Neosyringophilopsis Skoracki and Sikora 2005
Description
Genus Neosyringophilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2005
Neosyringophilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2005: 22.
Type species: Neosyringophilopsis acanthizus Skoracki and Sikora, 2005, by original designation.
Members of this genus inhabit quills of primaries, secondaries and coverts. They are mainly associated with passeriform birds from the families: Acanthizidae, Aegithalidae, Estrildidae, Leiothrichidae, Locustellidae, Phylloscopidae, and Troglodytidae. One species of this genus has been noted on representatives of piciform birds of the family Lybiidae.
The Nearctic fauna comprises only one of the eight described species in this genus, N. troglodytis (Fritsch, 1958).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Syringophilidae
- Genus
- Neosyringophilopsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Skoracki and Sikora
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neosyringophilopsis and, 2005 sec. Skoracki, Spicer & Oconnor, 2016
References
- Skoracki, M. & Sikora, B. (2005) Neosyringophilopsis, a new genus of the subfamily Syringophilinae (Acari: Syringophilidae). Zootaxa, 1052, 21 - 28.
- Fritsch, W. (1958) Die milbengattung Syringophilus Heller, 1880 (subordo Trombidiformes, Fam. Myobiidae Megnin, 1877). Zoologische Jahrbucher Systematik, 86, 227 - 234.