Cygnocoptes prasadi Fain and Bochkov, 2003

González-Acuña, Daniel, Moreno, Lucila, Cicchino, Armando, Mironov, Sergey & Kinsella, Mike, 2010, Checklist of the parasites of the black-necked swan, Cygnus melanocoryphus (Aves: Anatidae), with new records from Chile, Zootaxa 2637, pp. 55-68 : 62

Cygnocoptes prasadi Fain and Bochkov, 2003

Site of infection: feather.

Locality: not reported ( Argentina).

Reference: Fain and Bochkov (2003).

Comments: Fain and Bochkov established this genus in the content of the family Pyroglyphidae , but later Mironov (2007) moved it to the Psoroptoididae . The bird died in quarantine, import from Argentina.