Torotrogla merulae Skoracki et al ., 2000: 192
A systematiC review of the subfamily Syringophilinae (ACari: Syringophilidae) of the NearCtiC region. Part 1: quill mites assoCiated with passerines (Aves: Passeriformes)
Skoracki, Maciej
Spicer, Greg S.
Oconnor, Barry M.
Zootaxa
2016
2016-02-29
4084
4
451
494
8T779
Skoracki, Dabert and Ehrnsberger, 2000
Skoracki, Dabert and Ehrnsberger
2000
[151,899,1636,1662]
Arachnida
Syringophilidae
Torotrogla
GBIF
Animalia
Trombidiformes
32
483
Arthropoda
species
merulae
Torotrogla merulaeSkoracki et al., 2000: 192, figs. 1–10; Skoracki 2011: 228, figs. 166–168. Types deposited in AMU, ZISP and ZSM examined.
Type host: Turdus merulaLinnaeus( Passeriformes: Turdidae). Type locality: Poland. Material examined.One female (FMNH uncatalogued) from Turdus migratoriusLinnaeus( Passeriformes: Turdidae), USA: Georgia, Green Co., 22 February 1968, coll. J. Taylor, specimen in FMNH.
Hosts and distribution. Turdus merulaLinnaeus (Turdidae)from Poland(Skoracki et al. 2000; Skoracki 2011), Germany( Schmaschke et al. 2003) Russia( Bochkov et al. 2009), Jordan( Glowska et al. 2007), T. migratoriusLinnaeus[ new host] from USA( Georgia) (present paper), T. philomelosBrehmfrom Poland( Skoracki 2004c), Germany(Skoracki 2011) and Jordan( Glowska et al. 2007), T. torquatusLinnaeusfrom Slovakia(Skoracki 2011), and T. viscivorusLinnaeusfrom Romaniaand Poland( Skoracki 2004c).