Four new species belonging to Aulonastus Kethley, 1970 (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae), which are found inside the quills of body feathers of North American passerines (Aves: Passeriformes), are described and figured: A. emberizicus n. sp. from Ammodramus savanarum (Gmelin) (Emberizidae) (type-host) in Texas, Zonotrichia atricapilla (Gmelin) (Emberizidae) in California and Passerculus sandwichensis (Gmelin) (Emberizidae) in Texas; A. euphagus n. sp. from Euphagus cyanocephalus (Wagler) (Icteridae) in California; A. pirangus n. sp. from Piranga ludoviciana (Wilson) (Cardinalidae) in California; and A. sturnellus n. sp. from Sturnella magna (Linnaeus) (Icteridae) in Texas. A key to females of the known species of Aulonastus is presented.
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Folia Parasitol (Praha)
July 2019
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Faculty of Biology, Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Poznan, Poland.
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November 2017
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia. 2Tyumen State University, 6 Volodarskogo Street, Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast, Russia.
Eight new species of the feather mite genus Amerodectes Valim and Hernandes, 2010 (Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae) are described from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Georgia, USA: Amerodectes cathari sp. n. from Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall) (Turdidae), A.
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March 2016
Entomología. Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. 4º Piso, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Email:
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August 2015
Entomología, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, 4° Piso, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria CJ428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Acanthocrios furnarii (Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928) [Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Haematosiphoninae] is an ectoparasite on avian hosts from Argentina and Uruguay. It has been mostly found in mud nests of Furnarius rufus (Gmelin, 1788) [Aves: Furnariidae], but its true hosts are some of the inquiline birds that use F. rufus nests.
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July 2011
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034, St Petersburg, Russia,
Four new syringophilid species of Syringophiloidus Kethley, 1970 are described from North American passerines: S. zonotrichia n. sp.
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