Rafapicobia lepidocolaptesi Skoracki and Solarczyk, 2012

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 : 78

Rafapicobia lepidocolaptesi Skoracki and Solarczyk, 2012

( Figs. 61 A, B)

Rafapicobia lepidocolaptesi Skoracki and Solarczyk, 2012: 62 , figs. 13–19. Types deposited in AMU and ZSM, examined.

Type host. Lepidocolaptes affinis (Lafresnaye) ( Passeriformes : Furnariidae ). Type locality. Ecuador.

Host range and distribution. Oligoxenous species associated with the woodcreepers of the genus Lepidocolaptes ( Passeriformes : Furnariidae ): L. affinis (Lafresnaye) from Ecuador and Venezuela, and L. souleyetii (Des Murs) from Colombia ( Skoracki & Solarczyk 2012).

Figures

FIGURE 61. Rafapicobia spp., female. R. lepidocolaptesi Skoracki and Solarczyk, 2012 (A, B). A, hysteronotal setae d 1; B, opisthosoma in ventral view. R. dendrocolaptesi Skoracki and Solarczyk, 2012 (C). C, pygidial shield. R. milenskyi Glowska and Schmidt, 2014 (D). D, pygidial shield. R. melzeri Skoracki et al., 2014 (E). E, anterior part of propodonotal shield.