Gunabopicobia zumpti ( Lawrence, 1959 )

Skoracki, Maciej, Sikora, Bozena & Spicer, Greg S., 2016, A review of the subfamily Picobiinae Johnston and Kethley, 1973 (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae), Zootaxa 4113 (1), pp. 1-95 : 27

Gunabopicobia zumpti ( Lawrence, 1959)

( Figs. 20 H, I)

Syringophilus zumpti Lawrence, 1959: 425 , fig. 5. Types deposited in NMSA, not examined.

Picobia zumpti, Kethley 1970: 65 , fig. 37; Skoracki & Dabert 2002: 144; Skoracki et al. 2004: 171; Bochkov et al. 2005: 122, figs.1–3.

Neopicobia zumpti, Skoracki 2011: 384 .

Gunabopicobia zumpti, Skoracki & Hromada 2013: 197 , fig. 3.

Type host: Streptopelia capicola (Sundevall) ( Columbiformes : Columbidae ). Type locality: South Africa.

Additional material. One female (PF) and 1 male from Columba livia ( Columbiformes : Columbidae ), POLAND: Wielkopolskie, Poznan, 21 December 2010, coll. T. Tymcio, all material in AMU; 1 female (NPF) from same host species, USA: Massachusetts, Suffolk Co., Boston, 1969, coll. N. S. Brown, specimen in AMU; 2 females (PF) and 1 male from Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus) (Columbidae) , USA: Georgia, Hall Co., Gainesville, February 1970, coll. J. B. Kethley, all material in FMNH.

Host range and distribution. Mesostenoxenous species associated with columbiform birds of the family Columbidae (Columbiformes) : Columba livia Gmelin from USA and Poland ( Bochkov et al. 2005; present paper), Streptopelia capicola (Sundevall) from South Africa ( Lawrence 1959), S. senegalensis (Linnaeus) from South Africa ( Skoracki & Hromada 2013), and Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus) [new host] from USA (present paper).

Figures

FIGURE 20. Gunabopicobia spp. G. masalaje Kaszewska et al. 2014, female (A – D). A, hypostomal apex and distal part of movable cheliceral digits; B, peritreme; C, proximal end of movable cheliceral digit; D, solenidia of leg I. Male (E – G). E, hypostomal apex and distal part of movable cheliceral digits; F, peritremes; G, genito-anal region. G. zumpti (Lawrence, 1959), female (H, I). H, peritreme; I, solenidia of leg I.