Bychovskiata Dubinin

Barreto, Mauricio, Burbano, María E., Proctor, Heather C., Mironov, Serge V. & Wauthy, Georges, 2012, Feather mites (Acariformes: Psoroptidia) from Colombia: Preliminary list with new records 3516, Zootaxa 3516, pp. 1-68 : 13-14

Genus * Bychovskiata Dubinin

Bychovskiata subcharadrii Dubinin, 1951

Material examined. Ex Himantopus mexicanus (Müller) ( Charadriiformes : Recurvirostridae ): 1 male and 4 females, Dept. Valle del Cauca: Jamundí, Hacienda El Castillo, 13 January 1983, coll. L.F. Villota, UV No. 4899.

Hosts and distribution. This species was described ex Himantopus himantopus (Linnaeus) ( Charadriiformes : Recurvirostridae ) from Russia (Barabinsk steppe) ( Dubinin 1951). This mite is distributed world wide on almost all species of the genera Himantopus and Recurvirostra including H. melanurus Vieillot from Argentina (Buenos Aires), H. leucocephalus Gould from Indonesia (Celebes), H. meridionalis Brehm from Mozambique (Bela Vista), H. mexicanus from USA (Florida), H. ceylonensis Whistler from Ceylon, H. novaezeelandiae Gould from New Zealand, H. himantopus from Kazakhstan (Kyzyl Orda region), R. avocetta Linnaeus from Kenya (Koroli), Egypt (Helonan), R. americana Gmelin from Canada (Alberta) and the USA (Texas), R. andina Philippi and Landbeck from Bolivia (Oruro) ( Mironov & Dabert 1997), ex H. himantopus from Cuba, Cameroon, Congo, and South Africa ( Č erný 1967; Gaud 1972), and ex Haematopus o. ostralegus Linnaeus ( Charadriiformes : Haematopodidae ) from Italy ( Manilla et al. 1994).