TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - Two new feather mite species of the genus Montesauria Oudemans (Analgoidea: Proctophyllodidae) from thrushes (Passeriformes: Turdidae) in the Indian Subcontinent VL - 58 IS - 4 SP - 881 EP - 896 PY - 2018 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - Constantinescu, Ioana Cristina AU - Popa, Oana Paula AU - Popa, Luis Ovidiu AU - Cobzaru, Ioana AU - Mukhim, D. Khlur B. AU - Adam, Costică UR - https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20184294 DO - 10.24349/acarologia/20184294 DA - 2018-10-30 ET - 2018-10-30 KW - feather mites KW - taxonomy KW - new species KW - Montesauria KW - India AB - Two new feather mite species of the genus Montesauria Oudemans, 1905, collected from thrushes (Turdidae) in India, are described: Montesauria hernandesi sp. n. from Turdus dissimilis Blyth, 1847 and M. caerulea sp. n. from Myophonus caeruleus (Scopoli, 1786). Both species belong to the merulae species group, being morphologically closest to other two species of the genus, previously described from birds of the family Turdidae in Asia (Japan): M. sibirica Kuroki, Nagahori and Mironov, 2006 and M. aurea Kuroki, Nagahori and Mironov, 2006, respectively. The new species most clearly differ from those described in Japan by the dorsal shield ornamentation. In both sexes of M. hernandesi sp. n., the ornamentation of the prodorsal and hysteronotal shields is represented by round and ovate lacunae, and the ornamentation of the lobar shield of females has few ovate lacunae. In both sexes of M. caerulea sp. n., the ornamentation of the hysteronotal shield is very particular, with large and almost round lacunae in the anterior half and small ovate lacunae in the posterior half. ER -