Pellonyssus Clark & Yunker, 1956

Mašán, Peter, Fenďa, Peter, Krištofík, Ján & Halliday, Bruce, 2014, A review of the ectoparasitic mites (Acari: Dermanyssoidea) associated with birds and their nests in Slovakia, with notes on identification of some species, Zootaxa 3893 (1), pp. 77-100 : 88

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6126783
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scientific name	Pellonyssus Clark & Yunker, 1956
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Genus: Pellonyssus Clark & Yunker, 1956 View in CoL

Pellonyssus Clark & Yunker, 1956: 93 View in CoL .

Type species: Pellonyssus passeri Clark & Yunker, 1956 View in CoL .

According to Radovsky (2010) the genus Pellonyssus contains 13 valid species, all parasites of birds, and widely distributed mainly in warmer latitudes. He did not record any occurrence of this genus in Europe, but there are at least four papers published on European records of Pellonyssus from the nests of the house sparrow ( Passer domesticus ) in Hungary and the Eurasian tree sparrow ( Passer montanus ) in Slovakia ( Szabó et al. 2002, 2008; Švaňa et al. 2006; Fenďa et al. 2011).