A NEW FEATHER MITE OF THE GENUS CORYDOLICHUS GAUD, 1966 (PTEROLICHOIDEA: OCHROLICHIDAE) FROM LARKS OF THE GENUS CALANDRELLA (PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE)

About authors:

Sergey V. Mironov, e-mail

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

Z.Z. Sayakova, Institute of Zoology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Acknowledgments:

The authors wish to thank Dr. E.I.Gavrilov, the head of the Laboratory of Ornithology, Institute of Zoology, Almaty, Kazakhstan and the research stuff of the bird banding station "Chokpak" for their help with a field work. The authors also gratitude Prof., Dr. W.T.Atyeo (University of Georgia, Athens, USA), Drs. H.Andre (Musee Royal de l'Afrique Central, Tervuren, Belgium), and R. Nuttall (Nation-al Museum of Bloemfontein, South Africa) for loan-ing the material.

The study was supported by the Russian Foun-dation for Basic Research (Grants No. 00-04-49323, 00-04-48885, 00-15-97742).

Annotation:

Corydolichus calandrellicolus sp.n. is descri-bed from the red-capped lark Calandrella cinerea (Alaudidae) form Kazakhstan. A new diagnosis of the genus Corydolichus Gaud, 1966 is proposed. Some morphological features and phylogenetic re-lationships of the family Ochrolichidae are briefly discussed.

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