Syringophilus Heller, 1880

Skoracki, Maciej & Sikora, Bozena, 2011, Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) associated with galliform birds (Aves: Galliformes), Zootaxa 2966, pp. 13-30 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.278233
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5296680
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scientific name	Syringophilus Heller, 1880
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Genus Syringophilus Heller, 1880 View in CoL

Syringophilus Heller, 1880: 186 View in CoL .

Type species: Syringophilus bipectinatus Heller, 1880 by monotypy.

This genus includes large quill mites (total body length 920–1240). Females of this species have large gnathosoma devoid protuberances, numerously-chambered branches of peritremes, well developed dorsal and ventral sclerotizations, ornamented propodonotal setae (but more delicately than in representants of Colinophilus ), and with full complement of body and leg setae.

At present, the genus Syringophilus includes two species, S. bipectinatus Haller and S. numidae Bochkov. First species has worldwide distribution and parasitizing phasianid birds as follow: Gallus gallus domesticus , Alectoris rufa and Ptilopachus petrosus . The second species is known only from Numida meleagris (Numididae) . Representants of S. bipectinatus parasitizing domestic hen were noted from quills of primaries, secondaries, coverts, alulars and tertials, but the most infested feathers are primaries and secondaries ( Pires & Daemon 2007).