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

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Genus: Pellonyssus Clark & Yunker, 1956

Pellonyssus Clark & Yunker, 1956: 93 . Type species: Pellonyssus passeri Clark & Yunker, 1956 .

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).

References

Clark, G. M. & Yunker, C. E. (1956) A new genus and species of Dermanyssidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata) from the English sparrow, with observations on its life cycle. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 23, 93 - 101.

Fenda, P., Kucman, P., Bacikova, S., Orszaghova, Z., Puchala, P., Sobekova, K., Janoskova, V. & Meliskova, M. (2011) Roztoce (Acari, Mesostigmata) v hniezdach vrabca polneho (Passer montanus) v PR Sur (JZ Slovensko). Folia Faunistica Slovaca, 16, 37 - 44. [in Slovak]

Radovsky, F. J. (2010) Revision of Genera of the Parasitic Mite Family Macronyssidae (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssoidea) of the World. Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield, Michigan, 170 pp.

Svana, M., Fenda, P. & Orszaghova, Z. (2006) Roztoce (Acarina, Mesostigmata) v hniezdach vtakov JZ Slovenska. Folia Faunistica Slovaca, 11, 39 - 42. [in Slovak]

Szabo, K., Szalmas, A., Liker, A. & Barta, Z. (2002) Effects of haematophagous mites on nestling house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Acta Parasitologica, 47, 318 - 322.

Szabo, K., Szalmas, A., Liker, A. & Barta, Z. (2008) Adaptive host-abandonment of ectoparasites before fledging? Withinbrood distribution of nest mites in house sparrow broods. Journal of Parasitology, 94, 1038 - 1043. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1645 / ge- 1150.1