DESCRIPTION OF FOUR NEWGENERAOF THE FEATHERMITE FAMILY PTERONYSSIDAE OUDEMANS 1941 (ASTIGMATA: ANALGOIDEA) WITH NOTES ONSYSTEMATICS OF THE FAMILY

About author:

Sergey V. Mironov, e-mail

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

Acknowledgments:

The main part of the material used in the present study is represented by specimens from the feather mite collection of the late Dr. J. Gaud (Universite de Nice, France). The author wishes to thank Drs. W.T. Atyeo (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) and R. Nuttall (Ornithological De-partment, National Museum of Bloemfontein, South Africa) for loaning the specimens. The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research projects 00-04-49323, 00-04-48885, 96-15-97882.

Annotation:

The paper restores the family rank ofthe feath-er mite taxon Pteronyssidae Oudemans, 1941, which has been treated by most experts as a subfamily of the Avenzoariidae Oudemans, 1905, and provides a new formal diagnosis of this family. Brief refer-ences to general publications on the taxonomy and host associations of pteronyssid mites are given. Four new genera are established within the Pteron-yssidae: Micropteroherpus gen. n. with the type species Micropteroherpus benoiti (Faccini et Atyeo, 1981) comb, п., Dicrurobius gen. n. with the type species Dicrurobius monacrotrichus (Gaud, 1952) comb, п., Vanginyssus gen. n. with the type species Vanginyssus schizurus (Gaud, 1952) comb, п., 77-malinyssus gen. n. with the type species Timalinys-sus formosanus sp. n. from Actinodura morrisoni-ana (Timaliidae). A new species group nectariniae is recognized within the genus PteronyssoidesHull, 1931. One new species, Pteronyssoides (P.) nec-tariniae sp. п., is described from Nectarinia afra (Nectariniidae).

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