REDESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR SPECIES OF THE FEATHER MITE GENUS PTERODECTES ROBIN, 1877 (ACARI: PROCTOPHYLLODIDAE: PTERODECTINAE) DESCRIBED BY HERBERT F. BERLA

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2006. 14 (1)

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REDESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR SPECIES OF THE FEATHER MITE GENUS PTERODECTES ROBIN, 1877 (ACARI: PROCTOPHYLLODIDAE: PTERODECTINAE) DESCRIBED BY HERBERT F. BERLA



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Valim M. P., Laboratório de Ixodides, Depto. Entomologia; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz; Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRAZIL

Fabio A. Hernandes, Depto. Zoologia e Botânica; Progr. Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP; Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, Jardim Nazareth, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil

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Four species of the feather mite genus Pterodectes Robin, 1877, originally described by H.F. Berla, an early Brazilian acarologist, from various South American passerines are re-described: Pterodectes bilineatus; P. nordestensis; P. turdinus and P. geothlypis.

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