Syringophilopsis fringillae ( Fritsch, 1958 )

Pidhorna, Svitlana Ya., Chernychko, Kateryna J., Kivganov, Dmytro A., Trach, Viacheslav A. & Deli, Olga F., 2020, New and interesting records of quill mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) of passerine birds of southwestern Ukraine, Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3), pp. 213-223 : 217

Syringophilopsis fringillae ( Fritsch, 1958)

Hosts and distribution – Chaffinch – Fringilla coelebs (type host) ( Fringillidae ): Germany, England, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine (first record) (Skoracki 2011; Klimovičová and Hromada 2014; Glowska et al. 2015).

Material examined – From Fringilla coelebs , 16.04.2005, 2 males, 8 females [1].

Differential diagnosis – This species is a representative of the fringillae species group characterized by terminal setae f1 and h1 unequal in length in females. Only one species of fringillae group, Syringophilopsis fringillae , occurring in Palaearctic.

Remarks – This is the first record of this species in Ukraine.