Pterniboydaia Fain, 1985

Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna, 2018, A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 4403 (3), pp. 401-440 : 415

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Genus Pterniboydaia Fain, 1985

Pterniboydaia Fain, 1985a: 146 .

Type species: Boydaia pternistis Fain, 1955 by original designation.

Diagnosis. Palps with 1 segment. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Propodonotal shield absent. Propodonotal region with 5 pairs of setae (se absent). Hysteronotal region with 5 pairs of setae (h2 absent). Agenital series without setae. Genital series with 2 pairs of setae. Pseudanal series with 1 pair of setae. Setae 1a, 3a and 4a present. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–0–1–0, trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 5–4–3–2, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–2–2. Setae situated in anterior part of tarsi I –IV normally developed.

Remark. The monotypic genus associated with birds of the order Galliformes and recorded in the Afrotropical and Palaearctic regions ( Fain 1955a, 1956a, 1962c, 1963d).