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6 January 2021 Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the Huet's fulvetta, Alcippe hueti (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae), in China
Ioana Cristina Constantinescu, Gabriel Bogdan Chişamera, Rozalia Motoc, Daniel R. Gustafsson, Fasheng Zou, Xingzhi Chu, Costică Adam
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Abstract

Two new feather mite species collected from the Huet's fulvetta, Alcippe hueti (Passeriformes, Leiothrichidae), in China are described: Proterothrix dinghushani sp. n. (Proctophyllodidae) and Trouessartia pauciseta sp. n. (Trouessartiidae). Males of P. dinghushani have a pair of lateral hysteronotal sclerites and a closed pentagonal sclerotized frame in the postero-median part of propodosoma. Females of this species have the sternum 1/4 of the total length of epimerites, and the terminal cleft exceeds half of the length of the lobar shield. Both sexes of T. pauciseta have a distinctive character, the absence of 3 pairs of hysteronotal setae (d1, d2, and e2), that clearly differs this species from all previously known species of the genus.

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Ioana Cristina Constantinescu, Gabriel Bogdan Chişamera, Rozalia Motoc, Daniel R. Gustafsson, Fasheng Zou, Xingzhi Chu, and Costică Adam "Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the Huet's fulvetta, Alcippe hueti (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae), in China," Systematic and Applied Acarology 26(1), 146-165, (6 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.26.1.9
Received: 19 August 2020; Accepted: 9 October 2020; Published: 6 January 2021
KEYWORDS
feather mites
morphology
systematics
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