Ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from Costa Rican hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae), with description of three new species and a key to the Proctolaelaps belemensis species group
Author
Dusbabek, Frantisek
Author
Literak, Ivan
Author
Capek, Miroslav
Author
Havlicek, Martin
text
Zootaxa
2007
1484
51
67
journal article
49635
10.5281/zenodo.176933
9ef8836f-2742-4a4e-b2ea-746c0c6e06f9
1175-5326
176933
Tropicoseius fairchildi
Baker
& Yunker, 1964
This species was also described from the nasal turbinates of hummingbird
Phaethornis guy
in
Panama
. Naskrecki & Colwell (1998) examined
type
specimens of
Rhinoseius eutoxeres
Fain & Hyland, 1980
from
Eutoxeres aquila
and
R
.
waidei
Fain & Hyland, 1980
from
Phaethornis guy
, both from
Colombia
, and concluded that morphological characteristics of both these species fit well into range of intraspecific variation of
T
.
fairchildi
and are therefore identical to this species. This mite also was collected in
Panama
,
Ecuador
and
Costa Rica
, exclusively from different
Heliconia
spp. (
Heliconiaceae
). In
Costa Rica
it was also found on the hummingbirds
Campylopterus hemileucurus mellitus
Bangs, 1902
and
Eutoxeres aquila salvini
Gould, 1868 (Naskrecki & Colwell 1998)
.
Material examined.
Eleven females from six specimens of
Eutoxeres aquila
, Barbilla
NP,
September 2004
, coll. I. LiterĂ¡k.