MONOFREYANA GEN. N., A NEW FEATHER MITE GENUS OF THE FAMILY FREYANIDAE (ACARI: ASTIGMATA) FROM PLOVERS (CHARADRIIFORMES: CHARADRIIDAE)

About authors:

Sergey V. Mironov, e-mail

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

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

Acknowledgments:

Authors wish to thank Dr. B.M. O'Connor (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) for the possibility to collect the mite material from bird specimens deposited in the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan and Dr. H. Proctor (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia) for loaning the material for the present study. The investigation was supported by the Russian Foun-dation for Basic Research (Grants No. 00 - 04 - 49323, 00-04-48885, 00-15-97742).

Annotation:

A new genus of feather mites, Monofreyana gen. п., is established in the family Freaynidae. The genus includes three species parasitizing the plov-ers (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae): Monofreyana collaris sp. n. (type species) from Charadrius collaris, M. americana sp. n. from Ch. wilsonia,M. proctorae sp. n. from Ch. ruficapillus, and M. ambigua (Gaud, 1957) comb. n. from Ch. alexan-drinus. Relationships and morphological peculiar-ities of the new genus are briefly discussed.

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