Phoenicopteriella womersleyi
Description
Phoenicopteriella womersleyi (Fain, 1955)
Speleognathus womersleyi Fain, 1955b: 695, 1956a: 21, figs. 5–6, 23, 26; Clark 1958: 84, figs. 3–4, 9–12. Holotype in RMCA, examined.
Trispeleognathus womersleyi, Fain 1958b: 178, 1962a: 9; Fain & Hyland 1975: 205.
Trispeleognathus (Trispeleognathus) womersleyi, Fain 1963d: 23.
Ophthalmognathus womersleyi, Domrow 1969: 390; Spicer 1977: 498.
Phoenicopteriella womersleyi, Fain 1985a: 152, 1985b: 254, fig. 19.
Type host: Dendrocygna viduata (Linnaeus) (Anseriformes: Anatidae) from Rwanda.
Diagnosis. Palp tarsus with 3 setae (Be-type) and solenidion; palp tibia without setae. Hypostome with 1 pair of setae (Bb-type). Setae vi situated posterior to level of si. All dorsal setae Dd-type, except sensillae si SC-type, genital setae Bf-type. Agenital series with 2 pairs of setae. Genital series with 2 pairs of setae. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–1, femora 5–4–3–3.
Hosts and distribution. Anseriformes (Anatidae): DendrOcygna viduata (Linnaeus) and SarkidOrnis melanOtOs (Pennant) both from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Butare] (Fain 1956a).
Non-African hosts and distribution. Anatidae: Anas acuta Linnaeus, A. clypeata (Linnaeus), A. discOrs (Linnaeus), A. strepera Linnaeus, Aythia affinis (Eyton), all from USA (Clark 1958; Fain & Hyland 1975; Spicer 1977).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ereynetidae
- Genus
- Phoenicopteriella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fain
- Species
- womersleyi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phoenicopteriella womersleyi (Fain, 1955) sec. Skoracki, Schmidt, Marciniak & Marciniak, 2018
References
- Fain, A. (1955 b) Sur le parasitisme des fosses nasales chez les mammiferes et les oiseaux par les acariens de la famille Speleognathidae (Acarina). Description d'une espece nouvelle chez la chauve-souris. Annales de la Societe Belge Medecine Tropicale, 35, 689 - 700.
- Clark, G. M. (1958) One new previously unreported species of nasal mite (Acarina, Speleognathidae) from North American birds. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 25, 78 - 86.
- Fain, A. (1958 b) Notes sur les Acariens de la sous-famille Speleognathinae Fain, 1957 (Trombidiformes - Ereynetidae Oudemans). Essai de groupement sous-generique. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 58, 175 - 183.
- Fain, A. (1963 d) Chaetotaxie et classification des Speleognathinae. Bulletin Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 39, 1 - 80.
- Domrow, R. (1969) The nasal mites of Queensland birds (Acari: Dermanyssidae, Ereynetidae and Epidermoptidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 93, 297 - 426.
- Fain, A. (1985 a) Systematic notes on the Speleognathinae (Acari: Ereynetidae) with description of new taxa and a key to the Trispeleognathini. Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique, 121, 143 - 152.
- Fain, A. (1956 a) Les acariens de la famille Speleognathidae Womersley au Ruanda-Urundi (Congo Belge). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 53, 17 - 50.