NOTES ON SYSTEMATICS OF THE FEATHER MITE GENUS TROUESSARTIA CANESTRINI, 1899 (ACARIFORMES: TROUESSARTIIDAE) WITH AN UPDATED WORLD CHECKLIST

About author:

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

Acknowledgments:

The author thanks Fabio A. Hernandes (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil) for his useful comments on the manuscript.

The study was supported by a Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant (№ 20-04-00500a) issued to the author.

Annotation:

The paper provides major references to Trouessartia species described since Santana’s (1976) world revision of this genus, unified diagnoses of 11 currently recognized species groups (africana, appendiculata, capensis, crucifera, estrildae, minutipes, picumni, rosterii, stelgidopteryx, tenuipilata and viduae), and a world checklist of currently known species. The updated checklist includes 147 valid species and is supplemented with data on type hosts, distribution and references to most useful descriptions.

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