Trouessartia corvinus (Koch, 1842)

Dermaleichus corvinus Koch, 1842: 18 .

Pterocolus corvinus .— Trouessart 1885c: 74.

Trouessartia corvina .— Canestrini & Kramer 1899: 120; Dubinin 1951b: 27; Radford 1953: 214, 1958: 150; Santana 1976: 40.

Host and locality in Australia: Sturnus vulgaris, Lamprotornis sp., Sericulus melinus, etc., no details (Trouessart 1885c).

Current name of host: Common Starling, Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 ( Passeriformes: Sturnidae); Regent Bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus (Lewin, 1808) ( Passeriformes: Ptilonorhynchidae).

Notes: The name Trouessartia corvina may have been applied to several different species of mites from different species of hosts, and the true T. corvina occurs only on Corvidae (Santana 1976) . The published Australian host associations must be considered as questionable.