Syringophilopsis passerinae ( Clark, 1964 )

Skoracki, Maciej, Spicer, Greg S. & Oconnor, Barry M., 2016, A systematiC review of the subfamily Syringophilinae (ACari: Syringophilidae) of the NearCtiC region. Part 1: quill mites assoCiated with passerines (Aves: Passeriformes), Zootaxa 4084 (4), pp. 451-494 : 474

Syringophilopsis passerinae ( Clark, 1964)

Syringophilus passerinae Clark, 1964: 91 , figs. 3, 26 and 27; Skoracki et al. 2011a: 17, figs. 39–44. Types deposited in FMNH, examined.

Syringophilopsis passerina, Kethley 1970: 23 .

Type host: Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Cardinalidae ). Type locality: USA (Maryland).

Additional material. Six females (FMNH uncatalogued) from Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Cardinalidae ), USA: Florida, Leon Co., 1 October 1957, coll. J. B. Kethley, all material in FMNH; 5 females (FMNH uncatalogued) from Passerina caerulea (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Cardinalidae ), USA: Georgia, Jefferson Co., Wrens, 12 May 1968, coll. R. Heard, all material in FMNH.

Host and distribution. Passerina caerulea (Linnaeus) [new host] from USA ( Georgia) (present paper), P. ciris (Linnaeus) from USA (Texas) ( Skoracki et al. 2011a). P. cyanea (Linnaeus) (Cardinalidae) from USA (Florida, Maryland, Texas) ( Clark 1964; Skoracki et al. 2011a; present paper).