Picobia sturni Skoracki, Bochkov and Wauthy, 2004

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 : 61

Picobia sturni Skoracki, Bochkov and Wauthy, 2004

( Figs. 47 A, B)

Picobia sturni Skoracki et al., 2004: 159 , figs. 8–20; Skoracki 2011: 337 , figs. 248–251. Types deposited in AMU and ZISP, examined.

Type host: Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus ( Passeriformes : Sturnidae ). Type locality: Poland.

Additional material. Four females (NPF) from Sturnus unicolor Temminck ( Passeriformes : Sturnidae ), MOROCCO: El-Jadida, Mazagan, 1950, coll. J. Gaud, all material in FMNH.

Host range and distribution. Oligoxenous species associated with the starlings of the genus Sturnus ( Passeriformes : Sturnidae ): S. vulgaris Linnaeus from Poland ( Skoracki et al. 2004), Slovakia and Moldova ( Skoracki 2011), S. cineraceus Temminck from Japan ( Skoracki 2011), and S. unicolor Temminck [new host] from Morocco (present paper).

Figures

FIGURE 47. Picobia spp., female. P. sturni Skoracki et al., 2008 (A, B). A, opisthosoma in ventral view; B, seta vi. P. lamprotornis Klimovicova et al., 2014 (C – E). C, opisthosoma in ventral view; D, seta vi; E, pygidial shield. P. indonesiana Skoracki and Glowska, 2008 (F). F, pygidial shield.