Alloptes Canestrini, 1879

Han, Yeong-Deok, Mironov, Sergey V., Kim, Jeong-Hoon & Min, Gi-Sik, 2021, Feather mites (Acariformes, Astigmata) from marine birds of the Barton Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica), with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 1061, pp. 109-130 : 109

Genus Alloptes Canestrini, 1879

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Alloptes is one of the most specious genera of the family Alloptidae and currently includes about 50 described species ( Gaud 1972; Vasyukova and Mironov 1991; Kivganov and Mironov 1992; Mironov and Palma 2006). All representatives of this genus are associated with birds of the order Charadriiformes , with exception of a questionable host association of Alloptes tubinarii Dubinin, 1949 reported from several procellariiform hosts ( Dubinin 1949). Gaud (1972) subdivided the genus into the three subgenera, Alloptes s. str., Apodalloptes Gaud, 1972, and Conuralloptes Gaud, 1972. Further, nearly a half of species of the subgenus Conuralloptes Conuralloptes was arranged into a fourth subgenus, Sternalloptes Mironov, 1992 (in Kivganov and Mironov 1992). Three Alloptes species found on marine birds of the Barton Peninsular belong to three different dubgenera. Below we provide descimination features for these subgenera.