Volume 47/Number 4/Abstract 06

Acta Parasitologica, Vol.47, No. 4, 2002, 300-305
Skoracki Maciej - Three new species of quill mites of the genus Aulonastus Kethley, 1970 (Acari, Prostigmata, Syringophilidae) from passerine birds.

Department of Animal Morphology, A. Mickiewicz University, 28 Czerwca 1956/198, 61-485 Poznan, Poland

Corresponding author: skoracki@main.amu.edu.pl

ABSTRACT

Three new quill mite species of the genus Aulonastus Kethley, 1970 (Acari, Syringophilidae) from passerine birds are described: A. buczekae sp. nov. from the common starling Sturnus vulgaris (Passeriformes, Sturnidae); A. lusciniae sp. nov. from the thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia (Passeriformes, Turdidae) and A. albus sp. nov. from the pied wagtail Motacilla alba (Passeriformes, Motacillidae). Key to all know species of the genus Aulonastus is given.

KEY WORDS: Aulonastus, quill mites, Syringophilidae, taxonomy, passeriform birds

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