Picobia pycnonoti Glowska, Skoracki and Khourly, 2007

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 : 48

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4113.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4623873

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scientific name

Picobia pycnonoti Glowska, Skoracki and Khourly, 2007
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Picobia pycnonoti Glowska, Skoracki and Khourly, 2007 View in CoL

( Figs. 36 View FIGURE 36 C, D)

Picobia pycnonoti Glowska et al., 2007: 64 View in CoL , figs. 1–7; Skoracki 2011: 346 View Cited Treatment , figs. 256, 257; Klimovicova et al. 2014: 399. Types deposited in AMU, examined.

Type host: Pycnonotus xanthopygos (Ehrenberg) ( Passeriformes : Pycnonotidae ). Type locality: Jordan.

Additional material. Three females (NPF) and 2 females (PF) from Pycnonotus goiavier (Scopoli) ( Passeriformes : Pycnonotidae ), PHILIPPINES: Romblon Prov., Sibuyan Isl. 1.5 km. S., 1.25 km. E. Magdiuang, Tampayan, 28 May 1989, coll. S. M. Goodman, all material in FMNH.

Host range and distribution. Oligoxenous species associated with the bulbuls of the genus Pycnonotus ( Passeriformes : Pycnonotidae ): P. barbatus (Desfontaines) from Kenya ( Klimovicova et al. 2014), P. goiavier (Scopoli) [new host] from Philippines (present paper), and P. xanthopygos (Ehrenberg) from Jordan ( Glowska et al. 2007).

Glowska, E., Skoracki, M. & Khourly, F. (2007) A new species and new records of syringophilid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) from birds of Jordan. Zootaxa, 1635, 63 - 68.

Klimovicova, M., Skoracki, M., Wamiti, W. & Hromada, M. (2014) New data on the systematics of quill mites of the subfamily Picobiinae (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitising African birds with description of two new species. Folia Parasitologica, 61, 394 - 400.

Skoracki, M. (2011) Quill mites (Acari: syringophilidae) of the Palaearctic region. Zootaxa, 2840, 1 - 415.

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FIGURE 36. Picobia spp., female. P. biarmicus Skoracki et al., 2004 (A, B). A, pygidial shield; B, opisthosoma in ventral view. P. pycnonoti Glowska et al., 2007 (C, D). C, pygidial shield; D, opisthosoma in ventral view.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

Family

Syringophilidae

SubFamily

Picobiinae

Genus

Picobia