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Acari: Syringophilidae) Parasitizing Passerines in Tanzania Zootaxa 3616 (4): 367–377 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2013 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3616.4.5 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8906BB9F-97C0-483E-9359-75FED91BDE09 Three new quill mite species of the genus Neoaulonastus Skoracki (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing passerines in Tanzania MACIEJ SKORACKI1, MARTIN HROMADA2,3 & MARKUS UNSOELD4 1Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences & Centre of Excellence for Animal and Human Ecology, University in Presov, 17th November 1, 081 16 Presov, Slovakia 3Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71 C, 60-625 Poznan, Poland 4Ornithological Section, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, 81247 Munich, Germany Abstract Three new species of the genus Neoaulonastus Skoracki, 2004 found inside the quills of the body feathers are described: N. tanzanicus sp. nov. from Euplectes axillaris (Smith) (Passeriformes: Ploceidae), N. quelea sp. nov. from Quelea quelea Linnaeus (Ploceidae) and N. granatina sp. nov. from Granatina ianthinogaster Reichenow (Estrildidae). All avian hosts were captured in Tanzania. Key to Neoaulonastus species is proposed. Key words: Acari, Syringophilidae, quill mites, ectoparasites, birds, Africa, Tanzania Introduction The quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Cheyletoidea) are mono- or oligoxenous parasites associated with birds of 21 orders (Kethley 1970; Skoracki 2011; Skoracki et al. 2012). The family includes 281 species of 54 genera described from all zoogeographical regions, except Antarctica (Skoracki 2011; Skoracki et al. 2012). This number of syringophilid species is only a small part of their potential biodiversity, because the wide spectrum of the avian hosts is still unexplored. The systematic revision of the genus Neoaulonastus Skoracki was recently provided by Skoracki (2011). Presently, this potentially speciose genus includes 11 described species (including new ones) recorded from the Palaearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental regions. They are mainly associated with passerines from the families Acrocephalidae, Aegithalidae, Estrildidae, Hirundinidae, Ploceidae, Remizidae, Sylviidae, and Zosteropidae, although two species were described from piciform avian hosts of the family Picidae. Members of Neoaulonastus occupy a wide spectrum of microhabitats (types of feathers) on their hosts: secondaries, tertials, rectrices, coverts, and body feathers (see Table 1). In this paper we described three new species of the genus Neoaulonastus associated with passerines in Tanzania: Neoaulonastus tanzanicus sp. nov. from Euplectes axillaris (Smith) (Passeriformes: Ploceidae), N. quelea sp. nov. from Quelea quelea Linnaeus (Ploceidae) and N. granatina sp. nov. from Granatina ianthinogaster Reichenow (Estrildidae). Material and methods The material used in the present study was collected from dry bird skins housed in the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany (ZSM) (Fig. 1). About 10 body feathers were completely removed from each specimen and examined under a stereomicroscope using 10–20× magnification. When quill mites were present, the feather Accepted by A.V. Bochkov: 4 Jan. 2013; published: 21 Feb. 2013 367.
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