New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Two new species of the genus Picobia Haller (Acari: Syringophilidae) from Australian and Indonesian passeriform birds

Maciej Skoracki

Eliza Glowska

Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Biology, Department of Animal Morphology
Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan
Poland
skoracki@amu.edu.pl

Abstract Two new species of the quill mite genus Picobia Haller are described and figured from Australian and Indonesian passeriform birds: Picobia pyrrholaemus sp. nov. from Pyrrholaemus sagittatus (Acanthizidae) from Australiaand Picobiaindonesiana sp. nov. from three Indonesian sturnid birds (Sturnidae): Aplonis panayensis (Scopoli), Enodes erythrophris (Temminck) and Mino dumontii Lesson.

Keywords Acari; Australia; ectoparasites; Indonesia; quill mites; Picobia; Syringophilidae

Z08006; Online publication date 11 September 2008; Received 2 February 2008; accepted 10 June 2008

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2008, Vol. 35: 281–286
0301–4223/08/3504–0281 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2008

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