Vitznyssus Castro, 1948

Knee, Wayne, 2018, New species of parasitic nasal mites infesting birds in Manitoba, Canada (Mesostigmata, Rhinonyssidae), ZooKeys 786, pp. 1-17 : 5

Genus Vitznyssus Castro, 1948

Type species:

Dermanyssus nitschi Giebel, 1871 (= Vitznyssus caprimulgi (Fain, 1957))

Diagnosis.

Female mites of Vitznyssus species are defined by Butenko (1984) as relatively long and slim, with long and thin legs, stigma with short peritreme level with coxa III, anal shield with well-defined cribrum, single podosomal shield on dorsal idiosoma, chelicerae long and thin distally with thickened bases, well-developed tritosternum and deutosternum with denticles.

Remarks.

Vitznyssus is a small genus comprised of seven species collected from two disparate orders of birds: V. afrotis (Fain), V. neotis (Fain), V. tetragis Butenko, V. vitzthumi (Fain) from Otididae , Gruiformes ; V. caprimulgi (Fain), V. scotornis (Fain), and V. tsachevi Dimov and Rojas from Caprimulgidae , Caprimulgiformes ( Fain 1957b, 1966b, Butenko 1984, Dimov and de Rojas 2012). Butenko (1984) placed five Astridiella Fain, 1957 species described by Fain into Vitznyssus .