Columbiphilus alectoris Fain (Bochkov, Mironov, 2000)

This species was originally described from Alectoris sp. from Rwanda (Fain et al. 2000), and to this time there were no other data since the first description.

Material examined. From quill of body feather of Alectoris rufa (Linnaeus) ( Phasianidae) (new host): 2 females (AMU-SYR.323); FRANCE, Corsica, 25 January 1910, coll. F. Canesi. Mites collected by M. Skoracki. All material is deposited in the AMU.