Pterniboydaia Fain, 1985

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 : 415

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Genus Pterniboydaia Fain, 1985

Pterniboydaia Fain, 1985a: 146 .

Type species: Boydaia pternistis Fain, 1955 by original designation.

Diagnosis. Palps with 1 segment. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Propodonotal shield absent. Propodonotal region with 5 pairs of setae (se absent). Hysteronotal region with 5 pairs of setae (h2 absent). Agenital series without setae. Genital series with 2 pairs of setae. Pseudanal series with 1 pair of setae. Setae 1a, 3a and 4a present. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–0–1–0, trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 5–4–3–2, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–2–2. Setae situated in anterior part of tarsi I–IV normally developed.

Remark. The monotypic genus associated with birds of the order Galliformes and recorded in the Afrotropical and Palaearctic regions ( Fain 1955a, 1956a, 1962c, 1963d).