Syringophilid quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Brazil

ABSTRACT

Two new quill mite species collected from passerine birds in Brazil are described: Torotrogla synallaxis sp. nov. from Synallaxis spixi Sclater (Funariidae) and Syringophilopsis bonariensis sp. nov. from Molothrus bonariensis (Gmelin) (Icteridae). Additionally, three syringophilid species were recorded from new host species captured in Minas Gerais, Brazil: Syringophilopsis tyranni Bochkov and Galloway, 2004 from Satrapa icterophrys (Vieillot) (Tyrannidae); Syringophiloidus stawarczyki Skoracki, 2004 from Dacnis cayana (Linnaeus) (Thraupidae) and Syringophiloidus parapresentalis Skoracki, 2011 from Turdus rufiventris Vieillot (Turdidae). The syringophilid fauna presently recorded from Brazil is summarized.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:XXXX

KEYWORDS:

• Birds
• ectoparasites
• Brazil
• quill mites
• Syringophilidae

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the professors of Departamento de Parasitologia of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Pedro M. Linardi for assistance in getting permission for “Expedição Científica” project (Expedição científica CNPq Proc. AEX nº 591/2010-6, IBAMA license #24789-1) and Alan L. Melo and Álvaro E. Eiras for help with field supplies and equipment used during collections. During the fieldwork, we had a support of the ornithologist Augusto Cezar Francisco Alves, for whom we are greatly thankful.

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Funding

The study was supported for SVM by the General Biology Department of the Russian Academy of Science [theme no. 01201351187], for FAH by FAPESP – the São Paulo Research Foundation [grant 2011/50145-0], for MPV by FAPESP [grants 2011/11420-5; 2012/06951-4] and for MS by the German Academic Exchange Service – DAAD [grant A/12/05065].