Boydaia aratingae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tydeoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Acariformes Ordo: Trombidiformes Subordo: Prostigmata Cohort: Eupodina Superfamilia: Tydeoidea

Familia: Ereynetidae
Subfamilia: Speleognathinae
Tribus: Boydaiini
Genus: Boydaia
Species: Boydaia aratingae

Name

Boydaia aratingae Fain, 1963

• Type locality: nasal cavity of Aratinga jandaya (Gmélin) (Aves, Psittacidae), from Brazil but dead in the zoological garden of Antwerpen (Belgium)
• Holotype: IRSNB — ♀

Notes

• A list of hosts is given by Fain (1971).

References

• Fain, A. 1963. Chaetotaxie et classification des Speleognathinae. Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 39(9): 1–80.
• Fain, A. 1971. Clé et liste des espèces du genre Boydaia Womersley (Ereynetidae: Trombidiformes). Acarologia, 13(1): 98–112.

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus