Fainalges Gaud and Berla, 1964
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Fainalges Gaud and Berla, 1964 |
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Fainalges Gaud and Berla, 1964
This genus currently includes 13 species known exclusively from New World parrots ( Gaud and Berla 1964; Gaud and Atyeo 1981; Mejía-Gonzalez and Pérez 1988; Pérez 1996). In contrast to the previous genus, Fainalges represents small-sized forms of ingrassiine mites living on parrots. This genus demonstrates impressive cases of multiple speciations where several closely related Fainalges species are specialized for inhabiting different locations in the plumage of one host species ( Pérez and Atyeo 1984; Pérez 1995, 1996).
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