A new feather mite of the genus Promegninia gaud et atyeo, 1967 Aacariformes: Avenzoariidae) from the Gray-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma (Procellariiformes: Diomedeidae)

A new feather mite species Promegninia thalassarche sp. n. (Avenzoariidae: Bonnetellinae) is described from the Gray-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma (Forster) (Procellariiformes: Diomedeidae) from South Georgia Island. The new species is morphologically close to the type species of the gen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mironov, S. V.
Other Authors: Tolstikov, A. V.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Издательство Тюменского государственного университета 2014
Subjects:
Feather mites
Avenzoariidae
Promegninia
systematics
Procellariiformes
South Georgia Island
Mite
Online Access:https://elib.utmn.ru/jspui/handle/ru-tsu/12819
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Summary:A new feather mite species Promegninia thalassarche sp. n. (Avenzoariidae: Bonnetellinae) is described from the Gray-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma (Forster) (Procellariiformes: Diomedeidae) from South Georgia Island. The new species is morphologically close to the type species of the genus, P. pedimana (Trouessart, 1899), and most clearly differsfrom that species by having the terminal lamellae bidentate in males and the hysteronotal and humeral shields fused in females.

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