A NEW SPECIES OF THE FEATHER MITE OF THE GENUS BYCHOVSKIATA (ANALGOIDEA: AVENZOARIIDAE) FROM THE MASKED LAPWING (AVES: CHARADRIIDAE: VANELLUS MILES NOVAEHOLLANDIAE)

About author:

Sergey V. Mironov, e-mail

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Acknowledgments:

The material used for the present study (repre-sents the collection) was received by the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1996 as a last will gift from the late professor Dr. J.Gaud (Universite de Nice, France), the prominent expert on the feather mites.

Annotation:

A new feather mite species Bychovskiata frey-anoides sp.n. is described from the masked lapwing Vanellus miles novaehollandiae (Charadriidae: Vanellinae) from Australia.

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