Scutomegninia phalacrocoracis Dubinin and Dubinina, 1940

Eren, Gökhan, Öztürk, Mehmet, Mironov, Sergey V., Nisbet, Hatice Özlem & Açici, Mustafa, 2023, New records of feather mites (Sarcoptiformes: Astigmata) from some birds in Türkiye, Acarological Studies 5 (2), pp. 58-68 : 60

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https://doi.org/ 10.47121/acarolstud.1244323

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10377800

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scientific name

Scutomegninia phalacrocoracis Dubinin and Dubinina, 1940
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Scutomegninia phalacrocoracis Dubinin and Dubinina, 1940

Materials examined. 1 male and 1 tritonymph from flight feathers of the grey heron, Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 ( Pelecaniformes : Ardeidae ), Samsun, Türkiye, 7 February 2022, coll. M. Öztürk (as shown in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ).

Remarks. The genus Scutomegninia includes fourteen described species associated with birds of the order Pelecaniformes ( Anhingidae , Phalacrocoracidae , Sulidae Pelecanidae , and Threskiornithidae ) ( Mironov, 2000). In fact, Scutomegninia phalacrocoracis is associated with the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo , and its finding on the grey heron in this study is certainly a case of accidental contamination. As a matter of fact, S. phalacrocoracis has been reported a few on cormorant Phalacrocorax hosts in African, Asia, and Europe (Atyeo and Peterson, 1967; Mironov, 1990).

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