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Hexacaudalges characurus
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Hexacaudalges characurus (Trouessart, 1899)
Pteronyssus (Mesalges) characurus Trouessart, 1899b: 19.
Pteronyssus characurus.— Canestrini & Kramer 1899: 86.
Mesalges characurus.— Radford 1953: 205, 1958: 137.
Hexacaudalges characurus.—Mironov 2007: 136.
Megninia casuaricola Proctor 2001: 336 (synonymy by Mironov 2007: 136).
Hexacaudalges casuaricolus.— Mironov & Proctor 2005: 3298.
Host and locality in Australia: Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), Kuranda, Queensland (Proctor 2001).
Current name of host: Southern Cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Struthioniformes: Casuariidae).
Notes
Published as part of HALLIDAY, R. B., 2023, Prelude to a study of the feather mites of Australia (Acariformes: Astigmata), pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 5280 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5280.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912198
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Trouessart
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Sarcoptiformes
- Family
- Psoroptoididae
- Genus
- Hexacaudalges
- Species
- characurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hexacaudalges characurus (Trouessart, 1899) sec. HALLIDAY, 2023
References
- Trouessart, E. - L. (1899 b) Diagnoses preliminaires d'especes nouvelles d'acariens plumicoles. Additions et corrections a la sous-famille des Analgesines. Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Scientifiques d'Angers, 28, 1 - 62.
- Canestrini, G. & Kramer, P. (1899) Demodicidae and Sarcoptidae. Das Tierreich, 7, 1 - 193. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 69280
- Radford, C. D. (1953) The mites (Acarina: Analgesidae) living on or in the feathers of birds. Parasitology, 42, 199 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000084468
- Radford, C. D. (1958) The host-parasite relationships of the feather mites (Acarina: Analgesoidea). Revista Brasiliera Entomologica, 8, 107 - 170.
- Proctor, H. C. (2001) Megninia casuaricola sp. n. (Acari: Analgidae), the first feather mite from a cassowary (Aves: Struthioniformes: Casuariidae). Australian Journal of Entomology, 40, 335 - 341. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1440 - 6055.2001.00248. x
- Mironov, S. V. & Proctor, H. C. (2005) A new feather mite genus of the family Psoroptoididae (Acari: Analgoidea) from cassowaries. Journal of Natural History, 39, 3297 - 3304. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930500126107
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae (10 th edition). Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae. (British Museum facsimile, 1956). 824 pp.