THE QUILL MITES OF THE GENUS SYRINGOPHILOPSIS KETHLEY, 1970 (ACARI: SYRINGOPHILIDAE) FROM AFRICAN BIRDS

About authors:

Skoracki M., Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Animal Morphology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznañ, Poland

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

Acknowledgments:

We thank Dr. Andrei V. Bochkov (Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia) for criticalreview-ing the manuscript.

Annotation:

Two new quill mite species of the genus Syrin-gophilopsis (Syringophilidae) are described from African birds: S. nitens sp. n. fromMalimbus nitens (type host) and Hyphanturgus nigricollis brach-ypterus (Passeriformes: Ploceidae) and S. melit-tophagii sp.n. fromMelittophagus bullocki (Coraci-iformes: Meropidae).

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