TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the Oriental Magpie-Robin, Copsychus saularis (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae)
VL  - 58
IS  - 2
SP  - 313
EP  - 331
PY  - 2018
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Constantinescu, Ioana Cristina
AU  - Chişamera, Gabriel Bogdan
AU  - Petrescu, Angela
AU  - Costică, Adam
UR  - https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20184244
DO  - 10.24349/acarologia/20184244
DA  - 2018-02-22
ET  - 2018-02-22
KW  - feather mites
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - new species
KW  - Indonesia
AB  - Two new feather mite species from the bird host Copsychus saularis (Linnaeus) collected in Indonesia (Kalimantan) are described: Dolichodectes latilobus n. sp. (Proctophyllodidae, Pterodectinae), and Trouessartia saularis n. sp. (Trouessartiidae). The new species, Dolichodectes latilobus, has the following distinctive characters: in males, the opisthosomal lobes are widened in the posterior half; the opisthoventral shields are fused, forming a single shield that covers ventrally the posterior quarter of the body; legs I have longitudinal crest-like processes ; and setae ra on these legs are spiculiform. In females of D. latilobus, the posterior margin of the hysteronotal shield has a deep median invagination, and epimerites II extend to the level of the anterior margin of epigynum. The males of T. saularis have the adanal apodemes with two narrow lateral membranes, and the females have the terminal cleft width smaller than the opisthosomal lobe width, and the collar of the spermatheca cover 1/2 from the length of secondary spermaduct.
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