Boydaia cinnyris Fain, 1969

Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna, 2018, A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 4403 (3), pp. 401-440 : 423

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997211
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scientific name	Boydaia cinnyris Fain, 1969
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Boydaia cinnyris Fain, 1969: 373 , fig. 4, 1971: 98, 102, 109, fig. 12. Holotype in RMCA, examined. Type host: Cinnyris cupreus cupreus (Shaw) ( Passeriformes View in CoL : Nectariniidae View in CoL ) from Rwanda.

Diagnosis. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Setae ve present. Setae vi situated posterior to level of setae si. Sensillae SEc-type. Agenital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–0, trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 6–4–3–2, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–3–3. All setae on tibia and genu of leg I similar in shape. In larvae, antaxial and paraxial claw pair of leg I equal and both sharp-ended.

Hosts and distribution. Passeriformes (Nectariniidae) : Cinnyris cupreus cupreus (Shaw) (= Cinnyris cuprea septentriOnalis), ChalcOmitra senegalensis lamperti (Reichenow) (= Ch. s. aequatOrialis) both from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Akanyaru] ( Fain 1969).