A new genus of syringophilid mites (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) from cuculiform birds (Aves: Cuculiformes).
Cuculisyringophilus crotophaginus gen. n. et sp. n. is described from the guira cuckoo Guira guira (Gmelin) from Paraguay and also was collected from the groove-billed ani Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson from Colombia and Mexico. This new genus is closely related to Neoaulobia Fain, Bochkov et Mironov, 2000 but is distinguished by the following characters: propodosomal setae sce are situated distinctly anterior to level of setae d1, leg setae vs'II are absent, apodemes I are divergent.
Skoracki
Maciej
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Department of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. skoracki@amu.edu.pl
D000053:Acari / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000469:parasitology*; D003105:Colombia; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D010239:Paraguay