<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Psittaboydaia Fain 1985</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1>Genus <i>Psittaboydaia</i> Fain, 1985</h1> <p> <i>Psittaboydaia</i> Fain, 1985a: 145.</p> <p>Type species: <i>Neoboydaia psittaculae</i> Fain, 1962 by original designation.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Palps with 1–2 segments. Hypostome with 1–2 pairs of setae. Propodonotal shield absent. Propodonotal region with 5 pairs of setae (<i>se</i> absent). Hysteronotal region with 5 pairs of setae (<i>h2</i> absent). Agenital series with 1 pair of setae. Genital series with 3 pairs of setae. Pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae. Setae <i>1a</i>, <i>3a</i> and <i>4a</i> 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.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> 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: <i>PsittabOydaia psittaculae</i> (Fain, 1962).</p> </body> </html>