Gabucinia delibata (Robin, 1877)

Eren, Gökhan, Öztürk, Mehmet, Mironov, Sergey V., Nisbet, Hatice Özlem & Açici, Mustafa, 2023, New records of feather mites (Sarcoptiformes: Astigmata) from some birds in Türkiye, Acarological Studies 5 (2), pp. 58-68 : 63

Gabucinia delibata (Robin, 1877)

Materials examined. 1 female and 1 tritonymph from flight feathers of the hooded crow, Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 ( Passeriformes : Corvidae ), Samsun, Türkiye, 22 February 2022, coll. M. Öztürk (as shown in Fig. 5 ).

Remarks. All three presently known species of the genus Gabucinia — Gabucinia delibata (Robin, 1877) , G. gladiscapulata Gaud, 1960 and G. neotropica Hernandes, 2020 — are associated with crows Corvidae ( Passeriformes ) ( Mironov et al., 2014). Gabucinia delibata , has been reported so far on hosts belonging to the genera Corvus , Coloeus , and Pica across the Holarctic region ( Negm and Hassan, 2019; Hernandes, 2020); in the present study, it is reported on the hooded crow, Corvus cornix , for the first time in Türkiye.

Figures

Figure 5. Gabucinia delibata—A. Female, B. Tritonymph (scale bars: 100).