Syringophilopsis elongatus ( Ewing, 1911 )

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 : 473

Syringophilopsis elongatus ( Ewing, 1911)

Syringophilus elongatus Ewing, 1911: 39 . Type material lost (in Kethley: 21).

Syringophilus icteridae Clark, 1964: 89 , figs. 30 and 31. Material deposited in FMNH, examined.

Syringophilopsis elongatus, Kethley 1970: 21 , figs. 10 and 11; Bochkov & Galloway 2001: 2023; Skoracki et al. 2008: 299, 2011: 19.

Type host: Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Icteridae ). Type locality: USA.

Additional material. One female ( FMNH A600507-6) from Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Icteridae ), USA: Nebraska, Saline Co., Crete, 7 May 1960, coll. N. Braasch, specimen in FMNH; 2 females ( FMNH uncatalogued) from Quiscalus quiscula (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Icteridae ), USA: Nebraska, Lincoln, 4 September 1944, coll. D. Gates, all material in FMNH.

Host and distribution. Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus) (Icteridae) from USA (Arizona, California, Georgia, Maryland, Nebraska) ( Ewing 1911; Clark 1964; Kethley 1970; Skoracki et al. 2008, 2011a; present paper) and Canada (Manitoba) ( Hood & Welch 1980), Euphagus carolinus (Muller) from USA (Maryland) ( Clark 1964), Euphagus cyanocephalus (Wagler) from USA (California) (Skoracki et al. 2008), Quiscalus quiscula (Linnaeus) from USA (Maryland, Nebraska) ( Clark 1964; present paper) and Canada (Manitoba) ( Bochkov & Galloway 2001), Quiscalus mexicanus (Gmelin) from USA (Texas) ( Casto 1976).

Remark. Mite species recorded by Casto (1976) from Pheucticus melanocephalus (Cardinalidae) and determined as S. elongatus is presently described as a new species, S. wilsoni sp. nov. (see below).