NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES OF THE FAMILY SYRINGOPHILIDAE (ACARI: CHEYLETOIDEA) FROM PARROTS (AVES: PSITTACIFORMES)

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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

Acknowledgments:

We thank Drs. Sergei V. Mironov (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) and Maciej Skoracki (A. Mickiewicz Uni-versity, Poland) for reviewingthe manuscript. The present research was supported by the grant from the INTAS (International Association for the pro-motion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Un-ion), grant YSF 2002-0116/F4.

Annotation:

Nine species of quill mites of the family Syrin-gophilidae (Acari: Cheyletoidea) were collected from ethanol preserved specimens of parrots most-ly died in the Antverpen Zoo (Belgium). Among them, three new species are described: Megasyrin-gophilus dubinini sp. n. from Trichoglossus orna-tus from Indonesia (Sulawesi Is.), Megasyrin-gophilus platycercus sp. n. from Platycercus ex-imius from Australia and Terratosyringophilus lor-icinus from Lorius garrulus from Indonesia (Hal-mahera Is). The new host records and a key for the species of the genus Megasyringophilus are given.

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