Pterniboydaia pternistis
| Taxonavigation: Tydeoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Ereynetidae
Subfamilia: Speleognathinae
Tribus: Trispeleognathini
Genus: Pterniboydaia
Species: P. pternistis
Name edit
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 edit
- Boydaia pternistis, original combination
- Neoboydaia (Aureliania ) pternistis subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1963a: 21)
- Aureliania pternistis, subsequent combination used by Fain (1963b: 373)
- Pterniboydaia pternistis, subsequent combination advanced by Fain (1985: 149)
Notes edit
- Holotype examined and species redescribed by Skoracki et al. (2018: 416-417).
References edit
- 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.