Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the Oriental Magpie-Robin, Copsychus saularis (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae)
Author
Constantinescu, Ioana Cristina
“ Grigore Antipa ” National Museum of Natural History, Sos. Kiseleff no. 1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania.
Author
Chişamera, Gabriel Bogdan
“ Grigore Antipa ” National Museum of Natural History, Sos. Kiseleff no. 1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania.
Author
Petrescu, Angela
“ Grigore Antipa ” National Museum of Natural History, Sos. Kiseleff no. 1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania.
Author
Costică, Adam
“ Grigore Antipa ” National Museum of Natural History, Sos. Kiseleff no. 1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania.
text
Acarologia
2018
2018-02-22
58
2
313
331
http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20184244
journal article
10.24349/acarologia/20184244
2107-7207
5391428
4ED9857C-3E53-4396-80F8-289BBE6A9DD8
Genus
Dolichodectes
Park et Atyeo, 1971
The feather mite genus
Dolichodectes
Park and Atyeo, 1971
currently includes nine species;
one of them is widespread throughout the Old Word, one is described from Europe, one is from Asia, and six other species are recorded from Africa (
Trouessart 1885
;
Gaud and Mouchet 1957
;
Mironov and Fain 2003
; Mironov
et al.
2010, 2012, 2015). Atyeo (in:
McClure and Ratanaworabhan 1973
) reported 16 undetermined and presumably new species of this genus from Asia. To date, only one species of the genus
Dolichodectes
has been described from birds of the genus
Copsychus
:
Dolichodectes furcilobus
Mironov, Literák
,
Hung and Čapek, 2012 from the White-rumped Shama,
Copsychus malabaricus
(Scopoli)
(
Passeriformes
:
Muscicapidae
) in
Vietnam
(
Mironov
et al.
2012
). Of the nine species of the genus, three species were identified from birds of the family
Muscicapidae
, two species from birds of the family
Acrocephalidae
, and one from birds of the families
Platysteiridae
,
Turdidae
,
Stenostiridae
and
Passeridae
.
Dolichodectes latilobus
is the fourth species described from birds of the family
Muscicapidae
.