Genus Picobia Haller, 1878

Picobia Haller, 1878: 93; Kethley 1970: 64; Skoracki 2011: 327.

Type species: Picobia heeri Haller, 1878 by monotypy.

Diagnosis. FEMALE. Hypostomal apex varriable in shape, bumpy, flat, rounded or tapering. Peritremes M-shaped. Setae vi and ve situated at same transverse level or setae vi situated posterior to level of setae ve. Propodonotal shield present or absent, if present, divided longitudinally, forming 2 narrow shields bearing bases of setae ve, si and se or only ve and si, unpaired medial propodonotal shield present or absent. Opisthonotal lobes absent. Bases of setae 1a coalesced. Pseudanal series represented by 2 pairs of setae. Genital series with 1 pair of setae. Genital lobes present or absent. Apodemes I with thorn-like protuberances. Legs with full complement of solenidia. Physogastric form with distinctly enlarged idiosoma, worm-shaped in outline.

MALE. Features as in females except: genital series with 2 pair of setae.

Species included. 40 species: P. b i a r m i c u s Skoracki et al., 2004, P. caudati Skoracki and Hebda, 2004, P. cetti Skoracki, 2011, P. c h l o r i s Bochkov et al., 2000, P. cichladusa Skoracki et al., 2012, P. cissa Skoracki et al., 2004, P. currucae Skoracki and Magowski, 2001, P. corcoracus Skoracki et al., 2008, P. dinemellia Glowska and Skoracki, 2011, P. dryobatis (Fritsch, 1958), P. dziabaszewski Glowska et al., 2012, P. echo Skoracki et al., 2012, P. eremophila Skoracki, 2011, P. galerida Skoracki, 2011, P. heeri Haller, 1878, P. hylocichlae Skoracki et al., 2014, P. illadopsae Skoracki and Hromada, 2013, P. indonesiana Skoracki and Glowska, 2008, P. lamprotornis Klimovicova et al., 2014, P. l e m i Skoracki et al., 2008, P. lonchura sp. nov., P. m a k o l i sp. nov., P. mentalis Skoracki and Unsoeld, 2014, P. magellani sp. nov., P. myiopagi Glowska and Milensky, 2014, P. myrmecocichla Skoracki et al., 2012, P. ochoi Glowska and Milensky, 2014, P. oritis Skoracki et al., 2009, P. paludicola Skoracki and Kiljan, 2002, P. passeri Skoracki and Sikora, 2014, P. phoeniculi Fain et al., 2000, P. phoenicuri Skoracki and Hromada, 2013, P. ploceus Klimovicova et al., 2014, P. psaltriparus Skoracki et al., 2010, P. pycnonoti Glowska et al., 2007, P. riparius Skoracki, 2011, P. sayornis Glowska, 2014, P. schmidti Glowska and Milensky, 2014, P. sturni Skoracki et al., 2004, and P. troglodytidus Sikora and Skoracki, 2012.

Host range. Passeriformes: Aegithalidae, Alaudidae, Corcoracidae, Corvidae, Estrildidae, Fringillidae, Furnariidae, Hirundinidae, Leiothrichidae, Muscicapidae, Nectariniidae, Panuridae, Paradisaeidae, Passeridae, Pellorneidae, Ploceidae, Pycnonotidae, Rhinocryptidae, Sturnidae, Sylviidae, Thamnophilidae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Tyrannidae.

Piciformes: Picidae.

Coraciiformes: Phoeniculidae, Upupidae.

Distribution. Afrotropical (Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, D. R. Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia), Australian (Australia), Nearctic (USA), Neotropical (Colombia, Equador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela), Oceanian (Indonesia— Archipelago Java, New Guinea), Oriental (India, Indonesia—Sumatra, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand), Palaearctic (Bosnia and Herzegowina, England, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Macedonia, Moldova, Nepal, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey), Panamanian (Costa Rica), Saharo-Arabian (Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia), and Sino-Japanese (China, Japan) regions.