A new feather mite species of the genus Gaud & Atyeo, 1981 (Acari, Xolalgidae) from the Oriental Stork, (Ciconiiformes, Ciconiidae) in Korea.

A new feather mite species, (Xolalgidae), was identified from the Oriental Stork, Swinhoe, 1873, in Korea. Males of are distinguished from Gaud & Atyeo, 1981, in having a single triangular prodorsal shield, sinuous margins of the opisthosoma located between setae 2 and 2 on the hysteronotal shield, an oval-shaped epiandrum without posterior extensions, a shorter tibia + tarsus IV than femoragenu IV, and an absent ambulacral disc of leg IV. Females differ in having a prodorsal shield with a posterior margin that is blunt-angular, and a concave posterior margin of the hysteronotal shield with posterior extensions.