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Psittaboydaia Fain 1985

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Genus Psittaboydaia Fain, 1985

Psittaboydaia Fain, 1985a: 145.

Type species: Neoboydaia psittaculae Fain, 1962 by original designation.

Diagnosis. Palps with 1–2 segments. Hypostome with 1–2 pairs of setae. Propodonotal shield absent. Propodonotal region with 5 pairs of setae (se absent). Hysteronotal region with 5 pairs of setae (h2 absent). Agenital series with 1 pair of setae. Genital series with 3 pairs of setae. Pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae. Setae 1a, 3a and 4a present. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–1, trochanters 1(0)–1(0)–0–0, femora 4(3)–3(2)–2–3(2), genua 4–4–4(3)–4(3), tibiae 5–2(3)–2(3)–3. Setae situated in anterior part of tarsi I–IV reduced to rod-like microsetae.

Remarks. Species of this genus are associated with birds of the order Psittaciformes, and recorded in the Afrotropical, Australian, Oriental, and Neotropical regions (Fain 1962c, 1963d; Fain & Lukoschus 1972; Domrow 1969, 1991). The Afrotropical fauna comprises one of the three described species: PsittabOydaia psittaculae (Fain, 1962).

Notes

Published as part of Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna, 2018, A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region, pp. 401-440 in Zootaxa 4403 (3) on page 415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1212849

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C27187EDFFD4BC4EFF7F2BDEFF36FDAF

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1212849 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3E48FF95FFDABC40FFE82B46FFE9FFD7 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/EBC0B6E0-7308-47F4-A10F-1AF8D012AD11 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/C27187EDFFD4BC4EFF7F2BDEFF36FDAF (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/143472706 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/30335/taxon/C27187EDFFD4BC4EFF7F2BDEFF36FDAF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ereynetidae
Genus
Psittaboydaia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fain
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Psittaboydaia Fain, 1985 sec. Skoracki, Schmidt, Marciniak & Marciniak, 2018

References

  • 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. (1962 c) Trois nouveaux speleognathines (Ereynetidae: Trombidiformes). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 66, 363 - 369.
  • Fain, A. (1963 d) Chaetotaxie et classification des Speleognathinae. Bulletin Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 39, 1 - 80.
  • Fain, A. (1972) Developpement postembryonnaire chez les Acariens de la sous-famille Speleognathinae (Ereynetidae: Trombidiformes). Acarologia, 13, 607 - 614.
  • 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.
  • Domrow, R. (1991). Acari Prostigmata (excluding Trombiculidae) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 4, 1283 - 1376. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IT 9901283