Phoenicopteriella womersleyi

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: Trispeleognathini
Genus: Phoenicopteriella
Species: Phoenicopteriella womersleyi

Name

Phoenicopteriella womersleyi (Fain, 1956)

Type locality: nasal cavity of Dendrocygna viduata L., Butare [formerly Astrida] (Rwanda)

Holotype: IRSNB — ♀

Synonyms

Speleognathus womersleyi, original combination
Speleognathus (Trispeleognathus) womersleyi, subsequent combination proposed by Fain (1958: 178)
Trispeleognathus womersleyi, subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1962: 9), combination used, among others, by Fain (1963: 7, 14, 35, 40, 77) and Fain & Hyland (1975: 205)
Trispeleognathus (Trispeleognathus) womersleyi, subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1963: 23)
Ophthalmognathus womersleyi, subsequent combination proposed by Domrow (1969: 390)
Phoenicopteriella womersleyi, subsequent combination proposed by Fain (1985: 152) and used by Skoracki et al. (2018: 412)

Notes

Phoenicopteriella womersleyi was formally described by Fain (1956: 33–36) after a first citation by Fain (1955: 696; nomen nudum).
Holotype examined by Skoracki et al. (2018: 412).

References

Domrow, R. 1969 (1968). The nasal mites of Queensland birds (Acari: Dermanyssidae, Ereynetidae and Epidermoptidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 93: 297–426.
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. Reference page.
Fain, A. 1956. Les acariens de la famille Speleognathidae Womersley au Ruanda-Urundi. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines, 53: 17–50.
Fain, A. 1958. Notes sur les Acariens de la sous-famille Speleognathinae. Essai de groupement sous-générique. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 58: 175–183.
Fain, A. 1962. Les Acariens parasites nasicoles des batraciens : Révision des Lawrencarinae Fain, 1957. (Ereynetidae : Trombidiformes). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique 38(25): 1–69.
Fain, A. 1963. Chaetotaxie et classification des Speleognathinae. Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 39(9): 1–80.
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.
Fain, A. & Hyland, K.E. 1975. Speleognathinae collected from birds in North America (Acarina: Ereynetidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 83(3): 203-208.
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.

Links

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