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Creagonycha Kethley

Description

Genus Creagonycha Kethley

Creagonycha Kethley, 1970: 34. Type-species: Creagonycha lara Kethley, 1970, by original designation.

lara Kethley, 1970: 34, figs. 20, 21.

Type material. Holotype female at UGA, paratypes: females, males at UGA. Hosts and distribution. Larus delawarensis (type host) (Charadriiformes: Laridae), type-locality: USA, Georgia, Chatham Co., Coffee Bluff (Kethley 1970).

Habitat. Secondary, covert feathers.

sternae Kivganov, 1995: 86, fig. 4.

Type material. Holotype female, paratypes: females, males at author’s collection. Hosts and distribution. Sternula albifrons (type host) (Charadriiformes: Laridae), type-locality: UKRAINE, Odessa Prov., Tiligulski liman (Kivganov & Sharafat 1995).

Habitat. Primary feathers.

totana (Oudemans, 1904), Syringophilus totani Oudemans, 1904: 57, figs. 7, 8; Creagonycha totana, Kethley 1970: 37.

Type material. Holotype female at LAP.

Hosts and distribution. Tringa totanus (type host) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae), type-locality: FRANCE (Oudemans 1904); T. glareola (Scolopacidae), POLAND, Slonsk, (AMU, ZSM, ZISP) (Skoracki et al. 2006); Calidris minuta (Scolopacidae), KAZAKHSTAN, (ZISP) (Bochkov & Mironov 1998), POLAND, Slonsk, (AMU) (Skoracki et al. 2006); Calidris alba (Scolopacidae), TOGO, (MRAC, AMU) (Skoracki & Dabert 2002); C. temminckii (Scolopacidae), POLAND, Slonsk, (AMU, ZSM, ZISP) (Skoracki et al. 2006); C. himantopus (Scolopacidae), CANADA, Manitoba, (AMU, ZISP, ZSM, UMMZ) (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 pages 14-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3968.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288815

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Syringophilidae
Genus
Creagonycha
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]
  • Skoracki, M., Dabert, J. & Schmaschke, R. (2006) Observations on the quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) from charadriiform birds. Zootaxa, 1156, 51 - 64.
  • 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. (2002) A review of parasitic mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari, Prostigmata) from African birds, with descriptions of four new species. Acta Parasitologica, 47, 137 - 146.