FOUR NEW QUILL MITE SPECIES OF THE GENUS SYRINGOPHILOPSIS KETHLEY, 1970 (ACARIFORMES: PROSTIGMATA)

About authors:

Bochkov A. V. , Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

Sergey V. Mironov, e-mail

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

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

Acknowledgments:

We thank Prof. Т.О. Galloway (University of Manitoba, Canada) and late Prof. J. Gaud (France) for the materials used. The present research was  supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant 00-04-48885

Annotation:

Four new species of quill mites of the genus SyringophilopsisKelhley, 1970(Acari: Syringophi-lidae) are described: 5. phylloscopi sp. n. ex Phyl-loscopus collybitus from France and Poland, S. aegythali sp. n. exAegythalos caudatus from Rus-sia, S. garrulaxi sp. n. ex Garrulax affinis and S. stachyris sp. n. ex Stachyris pyrrhops from Nepal.

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