Coboydaia nigra

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. nigra
Subspecies (in addition to the nominal subspecies): C. n. icteri, C. n. motacillae

Coboydaia nigra (Fain, 1956)

Type locality: nasal cavity of Serinus sulphuratus shelleyi Neumann (Aves, Fringillidae), Akanyaru (Rwanda)
Holotype: MRAC slide no. 112381 — ♀

Boydaia nigra, original combination
Boydaia (Boydaia) nigra, subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1958: 176)
Boydaia (Coboydaia) nigra, subsequent combination used by Fain (1971: 101)
Coboydaia nigra, implicit subsequent combination due to the elevation of Coboydaia to full generic status by Fain (1985: 146), combinaion used by Skoracki et al. (2018: 430)

Species cited by Fain (1955: 695), described briefly with no drawings by Fain (1956a: 44) but described with drawings by Fain (1956b: 658–660).
A list of hosts is given by Fain (1971).
Holotype examined and species redescribed by Skoracki et al. (2018: 430).

Fain, A. 1955. Sur le parasitisme des fosses nasales chez les mammifères et les oiseaux par les Speleognathidae. Annales de la Société belge de Médecine Tropicale 35(6): 689–700.
Fain, A. 1956a. Les acariens de la famille Speleognathidae Womersley au Ruanda-Urundi. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 53(1-2) : 17–50.
Fain, A. 1956b. Nouvelles observations sur les Acariens de la famille Speleognathidae parasites des fosses nasales chez les batraciens, les oiseaux et les mammifères. Annales de Parasitologie humaine et comparée 31(5-6): 643–662.
Fain, A. 1958. Notes sur les Acariens de la sous-famille Speleognathinae Fain 1957 (Trombidiformes - Ereynetidae Oudemans). Essai de groupement sous-générique. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 58(1-2): 175–183.
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.