Pterniboydaia pternistis

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: Pterniboydaia
Species: P. pternistis

Name

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Pterniboydaia pternistis (Fain, 1955)

  • Type locality: nasal cavity of Pternistis afer Müller (Aves, Phasianidae), Butare [formerly Astrida] (Rwanda)
  • Holotype: MRAC slide No. 112392 — ♀?
  • Type species of the genus Pterniboydaia

Synonyms

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Notes

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  • Holotype examined and species redescribed by Skoracki et al. (2018: 416-417).

References

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  • Fain, A. 1955. Sur un nouvel Acarien parasite des fosses nasales de la perdrix au Ruanda-Urundi : Boydaia pternistis n. sp. (Speleognathinae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 52: 144–149.
  • 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. 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
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