Meropiboydaia merops
| Taxonavigation: Tydeoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Ereynetidae
Subfamilia: Speleognathinae
Tribus: Trispeleognathini
Genus: Meropiboydaia
Species: M. merops
Name edit
Meropiboydaia merops (Fain, 1956)
- Type locality: nasal cavity of Merops apiaster L. (Aves, Meropidae), Butare [formerly Astrida] (Rwanda)
- Holotype: MRAC slide No. 112398 — ♂
- Type species of the genus Meropiboydaia
Synonyms edit
- Boydaia merops, original combination, also used by Fain (1956a, b)
- Boydaia (Aureliania) merops, subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1958a: 177)
- Aureliania merops, subsequent combination used by Fain (1958b: 367) and (1963b: 27)
- Neoboydaia (Aureliania) merops, subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1963: 21, also used on page 36, 61)
- Neoboydaia merops, subsequent combination used by Fain (1963: 5, 13, 15, 35, 36, 41)
- Meropiboydaia merops, subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1985: 146) and used by Skoracki et al. (2018: 405)
Notes edit
- The species merops is cited (nomen nudum) by Fain (1955: 692, 694 [key]) and Fain (1956a: 692).
- The formal description is given by Fain (1956b: 30–31).
- The species is not cited in his revision of the genus Boydaia (Fain, 1971).
- Holotype examined and species redescribed by Skoracki et al. (2018: 405-406).
References edit
- Fain, A. 1955. Sur le parasitisme des fosses nasales chez les mammifères et les oiseaux par les acariens de la famille Speleognathidae (Acarina). Description d'une espèce nouvelle chez la chauve-souris. Annales de la Société belge de Médecine tropicale 35: 689–700.
- Fain, A. 1956a. Les acariens de la famille Speleognathidae Womersley au Ruanda-Urundi. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 53: 17–50.
- Fain, A. 1956b. Notes sur les acariens du genre Boydaia Womersley (Speleognathidae) parasites des fosses nasales des oiseaux et des mammiferes. Description d'une espèce nouvelle. Rivista di parassitologia 17: 27—34.
- Fain, A. 1963a. Chaetotaxie et classification des Speleognathinae. Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 39(9): 1–80.
- Fain, A. 1963b. Les solénidions Chez les Ereynetidae (Acarina: Trombidiformes). Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 22: 367–374.
- 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 & Annales de la Société 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.