Speleognathopsis Cooreman, 1954

Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna, 2018, A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 4403 (3), pp. 401-440 : 417

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997177

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C27187ED-FFCA-BC50-FF7F-2E5FFA9DF8C9

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scientific name

Speleognathopsis Cooreman, 1954
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Genus Speleognathopsis Cooreman, 1954

Speleognathopsis Cooreman, 1954: 428 ; Fain 1957: 251.

Type species: Speleognathopsis galli Cooreman, 1954 by original designation.

Diagnosis. Palps with 3 segments. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Propodonotal shield present. Propodonotal region with 6–7 pairs of setae. Hysteronotal region with 6 pairs of setae. Agenital series with 2 pairs of setae. Genital series with 2–3 pairs of setae. Pseudanal series with 1–2 pairs of setae. Setae 1a, 3a present, 4a present or absent. Number of leg setae: coxae 1(2)–0(1)–1–0(1), trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 5(7)–4–3–2(3, 4), genua 4–4– 3–3, tibiae 5–3–3–3. Setae situated in anterior part of tarsi I–IV normally developed.

Remarks. Species of this genus are associated with birds of the orders Acciptriformes, Charadriifomes, Galliformes , Passeriformes and recorded from Afrotropical, Australian, Oriental, Nearctic, and Neotropical regions ( Fain 1955b, 1956a, 1963d, 1964a, 1964b; Cooreman 1954; Fain et al. 1966; Domrow 1969, 1991). The Afrotropical fauna comprises five of the six described species: SpeleOgnathOpsis benOiti Fain, 1955 , S. charadricOla (Fain, 1964) , S. galli Cooreman, 1954 , S. OnychOgnathi (Fain, 1964) , and S. wai Fain et al., 1966 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Prostigmata

Family

Ereynetidae

Loc

Speleognathopsis Cooreman, 1954

Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna 2018
2018
Loc

Speleognathopsis

Cooreman, 1954 : 428
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