A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS SYRINGOPHILOPSIS KETHLEY, 1970 (ACARI: PROSTIGMATA: SYRINGOPHILIDAE) FROM THE TREE PIPIT ANTHUS TRIVIALIS (PASSERIFORMES: MOTACILLIDAE)

About authors:

Maciej Skoracki, Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Laboratory and Museum of Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia
corresponding author; e-mail: skoracki@amu.edu.pl

Dabert Jacek, Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, Poznañ, 61-614, Poland

Acknowledgments:

We thank Dr. Sergei V. Mironov (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg) and Dr. Wojciech Magowski (Department of Animal Ecology and Taxonomy, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan) for critical reviewing the manuscript.

Annotation:

A new quill mite species, Syringophilopsis blas-zaki sp. n. is described from the Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis captured in Poland.

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