Taxonavigation edit

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: Coboydaia
Subgenus (not nominal) (1) Apodiboydaia
Species (6): C. amandavae – C. clavata – C. crassipes – C. nigra – C. sturnellae – C. trochila

Subspecies (2): C. nigra icteri - C. nigra motacillae

Name edit

Coboydaia Fain, 1971

  • Original status: valid subgenus
  • Gender: feminine
  • Type species: Boydaia clavata Fain, 1956 by original designation

Notes edit

  • Coboydaia was first described as a subgenus of Boydaia (Fain, 1971: 98).
  • It was raised to full generic level by Fain (1985: 146).
  • A list of host is provided by Fain (1971).
  • Junior synonym of Boydaia according to Domrow (1990: abstract)
  • Genus recognized by Skoracki et al. (2018: 401).
  • The type species is not Boydaia trochila as indicated by Skoracki et al. (2018: 427).

References edit

  • Domrow, R. 1990. Acari Prostigmata (excluding Trombiculidae) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4(6): 1283–1376.
  • Fain, A.1956. Les acariens de la famille Speleognathidae Wom. au Ruanda-Urundi. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 53: 17–50.
  • Fain, A. 1971. Clé et liste des espèce du genre Boydaia Womersley (Ereynetidae: Trombidiformes). Acarologia 13: 98–112.
  • Fain, A. 1985. Systematic notes on the Speleognathinae (Acari: Ereynetidae) with description of new taxa and a key to the Trispeleognathini. Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Royale Belge d’Entomologie 121: 143–152.
  • Skoracki, M., Schmidt, K-H., Marciniak, N. & Marciniak, M. 2018. A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region. Zootaxa 4403(3): 401–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1 Reference page