A new species of pterodectine feather mites (Acarina,Analgoidea, Proctophyllodidae) from the Little Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra (Passeriformes,Nectariniidae) in Meghalaya,India |
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| Authors: | Ioana Cristina Constantinescu Gabriel Chi?amera D Khlur B Mukhim Costic? Adam |
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| Institution: | 1.“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Sos. Kiseleff no.1, 011341 Bucharest 1, Romania ;2.Zoology Department, Lady Keane College, 793001 Shillong, Meghalaya, India |
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| Abstract: | The article describes a new species of the feather mite subfamily Pterodectinae from the Little Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra Temminck, 1826 (Passeriformes, Nectariniidae) in India. Pedanodectes angustilobus
sp. n. differs from all known Pedanodectes species by having opisthosomal lobes short, at base wider than long, roughly rounded apically in males, and strongly elongated and narrowed lobar region with wide terminal appendages in females. A key to species of the genus Pedanodectes is presented. |
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| Keywords: | Pterodectinae Pedanodectes angustilobus new species systematics |
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