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A new species and new host records of the quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) associated with sunbirds (Passeriformes: Nectariniidae)

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Abstract

Neoaulonastus cinnyris sp. nov. (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitising Cinnyris mediocris (Passeriformes: Nectariniidae) from Tanzania is described. Additionally, Picobia oritis Skoracki et al. 2009 was recorded on four new hosts belonging to the family Nectariniidae from Ethiopian region: Cinnyris oustaleti (Bocage) from Angola, Cinnyris venustus (Shaw) from West Somalia, Cinnyris talatala Smith from Botswana and Zambia and Cinnyris erythrocercus (Hartlaub) from Uganda. All known quill mite species from family Nectariniidae are summarized in table.

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  1. Laboratory and Museum of Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia

    Miroslava Klimovičová, Radoslav Smoľák & Martin Hromada

  2. Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, PO Box 40658, GPO 00100, Nairobi, Kenya

    Peter Njoroge

  3. Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Szafrana 1, 65-516, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Martin Hromada

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Klimovičová, M., Smoľák, R., Njoroge, P. et al. A new species and new host records of the quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) associated with sunbirds (Passeriformes: Nectariniidae). Acta Parasit. 59, 255–258 (2014). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-014-0233-3

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