Pterodectes rutilus 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 : 60

Pterodectes rutilus Robin, 1877

Materials examined. 4 males from flight feathers of the common house martin, Delichon urbicum (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Passeriformes : Hirundinidae ), Samsun, Türkiye, 21 June 2022, coll. M. Öztürk (as shown in Fig. 2 ).

Remarks. The genus Pterodectes is monotypic, and its only representative, Pterodectes rutilus , is a cosmopolitan mite occurring on swallows ( Hirundinidae ) worldwide (Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America). Although this mite species most commonly occurs on the barn swallow, Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 , in the studies conducted so far, it has also been reported on the following of hirundinids: Atticora melanoleuca (Wied, 1820) , D. urbicum (Linnaeus, 1758) , H. nigrita Gray, 1845 , Riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) , R. paludicola (Vieillot, 1817) , and Stelgydopteryx ruficollis (Vieillot, 1817) ( Valim and Hernandes, 2008) . In our study, P. rutilus from D. urbicum has been reported for the first time in Türkiye.

Subfamily Proctophyllodinae Mégnin and Trouessart, 1884

Figures

Figure 2. Mites of the family Proctophyllodidae—A. Pterodectes rutilus, male (scale bar: 100), B-C. Proctophyllodes musi- cus, male (scale bar: 200) and female (scale bar: 100).