Toxerodectes biscutatus Park & Atyeo, 1973

Hernandes, Fabio Akashi, 2013, The feather mites (Acari, Astigmata) of the Violet-capped Woodnymph, Thalurania glaucopis (Gmelin) (Aves, Trochilidae), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3616 (6), pp. 563-577 : 575

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:05C89903-B7A0-45BC-B316-931E789BDAFD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151655
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/05530039-2207-B868-FF27-1386FAA6F8BC
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Toxerodectes biscutatus Park & Atyeo, 1973
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Toxerodectes biscutatus Park & Atyeo, 1973

This species is characterized by a pair of small anal shields in males. The only previous record in Brazil is from Thalurania furcata (Gmelin) (Kanegae et al. 2008) . (Collection data as in the new species described herein).

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Astigmata
Family	Proctophyllodidae
Genus	Toxerodectes

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Apodiformes
Family	Trochilidae
Genus	Thalurania

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