Cygnocoptes prasadi Fain and Bochkov, 2003

González-Acuña, Daniel, Moreno, Lucila, Cicchino, Armando, Mironov, Sergey & Kinsella, Mike, 2010, Checklist of the parasites of the black-necked swan, Cygnus melanocoryphus (Aves: Anatidae), with new records from Chile, Zootaxa 2637, pp. 55-68 : 62

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.198468
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6209631
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E97D822F-C26C-FFB5-FF39-FC99FAB16023
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scientific name	Cygnocoptes prasadi Fain and Bochkov, 2003
status

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Site of infection: feather.

Locality: not reported ( Argentina).

Reference: Fain and Bochkov (2003).

Comments: Fain and Bochkov established this genus in the content of the family Pyroglyphidae , but later Mironov (2007) moved it to the Psoroptoididae . The bird died in quarantine, import from Argentina.

References

Fain, A. & Bochkov, A. V. (2003) Observations on the Pyroglyphidae (Acari: Astigmata) with description of a new genus and species from Cygnus melanocoryphus (Molina) (Aves: Anatidae). International Journal of Acarology, 29, 123 - 126.

Mironov, S. V. (2007) Systematic notes on two genera of the feather mite family Psoroptoididae (Astigmata: Analgoidea). Acarina, 15, 135 - 141.