A REVIEW OF THE QUILL MITES (ACARI: SYRINGOPHILIDAE) PARASITIZING PARROTS (AVES: PSITTACIFORMES) WITH DESCRIPTION OF THREE NEW SPECIES

About author:

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

Acknowledgments:

I would like to express my appreciation to Drs G. Haszprunar, J. H. Reichholf, R. Kraft, and S. Friedrich (Zoologische Staatssammlung, München, Germany) for loaned birds for the present study and help during my work, and to Prof. C. B³aszak (Department of Animal Morphology, UAM, Po-land) for support of my visit to ZSM.

Annotation:

Three new species of syringophilid mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) associated with parrots are described: Neoaulobia krafti sp. n. from Caca-tua tenuirostris (Kuhl, 1820) (Cacatuidae) from Australia, Megasyringophilus eos sp. n. from Eos bornea (L., 1758) (Psittacidae) from Indonesia and Megasyringophilus geoffroyus sp. n. from Geof-froyus geoffroyi (Bechstein, 1811) (Psittacidae) from New Guinea. Loriculus pusillus Gray, 1859 and L. philippensis (Psittacidae) recorded for the first time as hosts of Neoaulobia puylaerti (Sko-racki et Dabert, 1999), Trichoglossus euteles (Tem-minck, 1835) and T. chlorolepidotus (Kuhl, 1820) (Psittacidae) are new hosts for Megasyringophilus trichoglossus Bochkov et Perez, 2002. All known syringophilid records from parrots are summarized in table.

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