Syringophilopsis sittae Skoracki, Hendricks and Spicer, 2011

Skoracki, Maciej & Mironov, Sergey V., 2013, New species and records of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from the passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) from the Russian Far East, Zootaxa 3641 (5), pp. 554-564 : 563

Syringophilopsis sittae Skoracki, Hendricks and Spicer, 2011

This species was previously described from Sitta carolinensis Latham ( Sittidae ) in the United States (Skoracki et al. 2011), and there were no other data on this mite since the first description. Below we give the record of a new host species, Sitta europaea Linnaeus , collected in Russia (new locality).

Material examined. From secondary quill of Sitta europaea Linnaeus ( Passeriformes : Sittidae ): 4 females, 2 males and 2 tritonymphs; RUSSIA, Primorsky Krai, Partizanskii District, Novolitovsk, 9 km N, 42 º 51 ’ 40 ”N; 132 º 53 ’ 5.5 ”E, 30 September 2008, coll. S.V. Mironov (SVM 08–0930– 1 / 2). All material is deposited in the ZISP (ZISP–AVB 011– 2908 –057), except 1 female and 1 male in the AMU (Reg. No. AMU–SYR. 432).