A NEW FEATHER MITE GENUS OF THE FAMILY PTEROLICHIDAE (ACARIFORMES) FROM THE COMMON PHEASANT, PHASIANUS COLCHICUS, WITH A CHECKLIST OF PTEROLICHINES ASSOCIATED WITH GALLIFORM BIRDS (AVES: GALLIFORMES)

About author:

Sergey V. Mironov, e-mail

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

Acknowledgments:

The author thanks Dr. 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 № 122031100263-1).

Annotation:

A new monobasic feather mite genus Phasianolichus gen. n. (Pterolichinae) is established, and its type species, Phasianolichus phasiani (Mironov, 1997) comb. n., is redescribed. The type species of this genus was originally described in the content of the genus Pseudolichus Atyeo and Gaud, 1992 from the common pheasant, Phasianus colchicus (Galliformes: Phasianidae). The genus Phasianolichus belongs to the grouping of pterolichine genera—Contolichus, Pterolichus, Pseudolichus and Tetraolichus—characterized by the short and rounded opisthosomal lobes in males and generally setiform idiosomal setae in both sexes. Phasianolichus is distinguished from these genera in the following combination of characters: in both sexes, setae h1 are absent; in males, coxal setae 4b are situated posterior to setae 3a, and the adanal apodemes are absent; in females, the hysteronotal shield is complete, roughly rectangular and extends to the posterior end of opisthosoma, idiosomal setae d2 and e1 are situated on the hysteronotal shield, and the bases of setae e1 and e2 are arranged in a tall trapezoid. Additionally, a world checklist of pterolichine feather mites, associated with galliform birds, is provided and briefly commented on.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2024-32-2-107-128

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