Aureliania Fain, 1958

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 : 404

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Genus Aureliania Fain, 1958

Aureliania Fain, 1958b: 177 , 1962a: 9, 1963b: 373, 1985a: 146.

Type species: BOydaia aureliani Fain, 1955 by original designation.

Diagnosis. Palps with 1 segment. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Propodonotal shield absent. Propodonotal region with 4 pairs of setae (ve and se absent). Hysteronotal region with 5 pairs of setae (h2 absent). Genital series with 3 pairs of setae. Pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae. Agenital setae absent. Setae 1a, 3a present, 4a absent. Number of leg setae: coxae 1–1–1–1, trochanters 0–0–0–0, femora 4–3–3–2, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–3–3. Setae situated in anterior part of tarsi I –IV normally developed.

Remarks. The monotypic genus associated with birds of the order Strigiformes and recorded in the Afrotropical, Australian, Palaearctic and Panamanian regions ( Fain 1955b, 1956a, 1963a, 1963d; Domrow 1969, 1991; Dusbabek & Cerny 1970).