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Neosyringophilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2005

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 : 460

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.1

publication LSID

 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AD929587-1481-4D29-A62D-1E445D1D0546

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3512711

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scientific name

 Neosyringophilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2005
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Genus Neosyringophilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2005 View in CoL

Neosyringophilopsis Skoracki and Sikora, 2005: 22 View in CoL View Cited Treatment .

Type species: Neosyringophilopsis acanthizus Skoracki and Sikora, 2005 , by original designation.

Members of this genus inhabit quills of primaries, secondaries and coverts. They are mainly associated with passeriform birds from the families: Acanthizidae , Aegithalidae , Estrildidae , Leiothrichidae , Locustellidae , Phylloscopidae , and Troglodytidae . One species of this genus has been noted on representatives of piciform birds of the family Lybiidae .

The Nearctic fauna comprises only one of the eight described species in this genus, N. troglodytis ( Fritsch, 1958) .

Fritsch, W. (1958) Die milbengattung Syringophilus Heller, 1880 (subordo Trombidiformes, Fam. Myobiidae Megnin, 1877). Zoologische Jahrbucher Systematik, 86, 227 - 234.

Skoracki, M. & Sikora, B. (2005) Neosyringophilopsis, a new genus of the subfamily Syringophilinae (Acari: Syringophilidae). Zootaxa, 1052, 21 - 28.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Syringophilidae

Specimens