Neopicobia ictericus ( Skoracki and Glowska, 2010 ) Skoracki & Sikora & Spicer, 2016

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 : 33-35

Neopicobia ictericus ( Skoracki and Glowska, 2010) comb. nov.

( Figs. 26 A–D)

Picobia ictericus Skoracki et al., 2010a: 144 , figs. 1–9. Types deposited in AMU, examined.

Type host: Pseudoleistes guirahuro (Vieillot) ( Passeriformes : Icteridae ). Type locality: Brasil.

Host range and distribution. Mesostenoxenous species associated with the icterid birds ( Passeriformes : Icteridae ): Cacicus chrysopterus (Vigors) and Pseudoleistes guirahuro (Vieillot) both from Brazil ( Skoracki et al. 2010a).

Remarks. This species was originally described as Picobia ictericus Skoracki et al. 2010 , but all generic characters of this species perfectly correspond with the genus Neopicobia , therefore we have moved it to this genus.

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FIGURE 26. Neopicobia spp. female. N. ictericus (Skoracki and Glowska, 2010) (A – D). A, apodemes I and II; B, propodonotal shield; C, region of setal base d 1; D, pygidial shield. N. carpodacus (Skoracki et al., 2010) (E, F). E, pygidial shield; F, coxal fields III and IV. N. modularis (Skoracki and Magowski, 2001) (G). G, coxal fields III and IV. N. cardinalis (Skoracki et al., 2010) (H – K). H, coxal fields III and IV; I, propodonotal shield; J, pygidial shield; K, region of setal base d 1. N. troglodytes (Skoracki et al., 2010) (L). L, pygidial shield.