TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE FEATHER MITE GENUS TROUESSARTIA (ACARIFORMES: TROUESSARTIIDAE) FROM ROBINS AND CHATS (PASSERIFORMES: MUSCICAPIDAE) IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST

About author:

Sergey V. Mironov, e-mail

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

Acknowledgments:

The author thanks Olga P. Valchuk, the head of the bird-banding field station near Novolitovsk (Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok) for the opportunity to examine the captured birds and collect mites. The author also thanks Fabio A. Hernandes (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil) for his useful comments on the manuscript. The study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project No. АААА-А19-119020790133-6).

Annotation:

Two new species of the feather mite genus Trouessartia (Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae) are described from passerine birds in Primorsky Krai (Russian Far East): Trouessartia calliope sp. n. from the Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope (Linnaeus) and T. larvivorae sp. n. from the Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans (Swinhoe) (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae: Saxicolinae). Both new species are close to T. swidwiensis Jablonska, 1968 associated with nightingales of the genus Luscinia (Linnaeus) (Muscicapidae) in having the prohysteronotal and lobar parts of the hysteronotal shield not separated in males and in having setae h1 situated on large ovate non-sclerotized areas and in the absence of the external copulatory tube in females.

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