A NEW SPECIES OF THE FEATHER MITE GENUS TROUESSARTIA (ACARIFORMES: TROUESSARTIIDAE) FROM ROBINS OF THE GENUS LARVIVORA (PASSERIFORMES: MUSCICAPIDAE) FROM ASIAN RUSSIA, WITH BARCODE DATA

About authors:

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia;
Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
st055938@student.spbu.ru; arsenii.dmitryukov@zin.ru

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

Acknowledgments:

The authors thank Philipp Chetverikov (Zoological Institute RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia) for his useful comments on the molecular part of the study, and two anonymous referees for their useful recommendations on how to improve the manuscript.

The study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (State register № 122031100263-1). Sequencing was performed in the Research Park of St. Petersburg State University Center for Molecular and Cell Technologies (Project “Genotyping of analgoids of the genus Trouessartia parasitizing birds” № 2303-060 for AD).

Annotation:

The paper describes a new species, Trouessartia cyane sp. n., collected from the Siberian Blue Robin Larvivora cyane (Pallas) (type host) and the Rufous-tailed Robin L. sibilans Swinhoe in Primorsky Krai (the Russian Far East). The description is supplemented with barcoding data (mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase subunit I gene). Trouessartia cyane is closest to T. larvivorae Mironov, 2021 and T. rubecula Jablonska, 1968, differing mainly in measurable characteristics. In particular, in males of T. cyane, the length of terminal lamellae is 20–23 (vs. 25–30 in T. larvivorae and 30–35 in T. rubecula); in females, the length of idiosoma is 515–545 (vs. 555–590 in T. larvivorae and 570–625 in T. rubecula), the distance between setae se is 85–90 (vs. 100–120), the width of opisthosoma at the level of setae h2 is 87–97 (vs. 105–115), setae h1 are thin spiculiform (vs. lanceolate). Genetic distances within T. cyane, as well as between the new species and four closely related Trouessartia species from four muscicapids distributed in northern Eurasia, have been analyzed using Kimura’s two-parameter (K2P) model. Intraspecific genetic distances within T. cyane varied between 0.006 and 0.01; interspecific distances between the new species and morphologically close species ranged from 0.154 (T. rubecula) to 0.185 (T. calliope).

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2023-31-2-199-211

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