Coboydaia amandavae

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
Species: C. amandavae

Coboydaia amandavae (Fain, 1962)

Type locality: nasal cavity of Amandava subflava (Vieillot) (Aves, Estrildidae), host from central Africa but dead in the zoological garden of Antwerpen (Belgium)
Holotype: MRAC slide no. 127047 — ♀

Boydaia amandavae, original combination
Boydaia (Coboydaia) amandavae, subsequent combination used by Fain (1971: 101, 108)
Coboydaia amandavae, implicit subsequent combination due to the elevation of Coboydaia to full generic status by Fain (1985: 146), combination used by Skoracki et al. (2018: 427).

Fain, A. 1962. Trois nouveaux Speleognathines (Ereynetidae : Trombidiformes). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 66(3-4): 363–369.
Fain, A. 1971. Clé et liste des espèces du genre Boydaia Womersley (Ereynetidae: Trombidiformes). Acarologia 13(1): 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.