Phoenicopteriella womersleyi

• Main Authors: Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia, Marciniak, Martyna
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Prostigmata; Ereynetidae; Phoenicopteriella; Phoenicopteriella womersleyi; Anas acuta
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5997162; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997162

Phoenicopteriella womersleyi (Fain, 1955) Speleognathus womersleyi Fain, 1955b: 695, 1956a: 21, figs. 5–6, 23, 26; Clark 1958: 84, figs. 3–4, 9–12. Holotype in RMCA, examined. Trispeleognathus womersleyi, Fain 1958b: 178, 1962a: 9; Fain & Hyland 1975: 205. Trispeleognathus (Trispeleognathus) womersleyi, Fain 1963d: 23. Ophthalmognathus womersleyi, Domrow 1969: 390; Spicer 1977: 498. Phoenicopteriella womersleyi, Fain 1985a: 152, 1985b: 254, fig. 19. Type host: Dendrocygna viduata (Linnaeus) (Anseriformes: Anatidae) from Rwanda. Diagnosis. Palp tarsus with 3 setae (Be-type) and solenidion; palp tibia without setae. Hypostome with 1 pair of setae (Bb-type). Setae vi situated posterior to level of si. All dorsal setae Dd-type, except sensillae si SC-type, genital setae Bf-type. Agenital series with 2 pairs of setae. Genital series with 2 pairs of setae. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–1, femora 5–4–3–3. Hosts and distribution. Anseriformes (Anatidae): DendrOcygna viduata (Linnaeus) and SarkidOrnis melanOtOs (Pennant) both from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Butare] (Fain 1956a). Non-African hosts and distribution. Anatidae: Anas acuta Linnaeus, A. clypeata (Linnaeus), A. discOrs (Linnaeus), A. strepera Linnaeus, Aythia affinis (Eyton), all from USA (Clark 1958; Fain & Hyland 1975; Spicer 1977). Published as part of Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna, 2018, A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region, pp. 401-440 in Zootaxa 4403 (3) on pages 412-413, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1212849