A new quill mite species (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitising tinamous (Aves: Tinamiformes) |
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| Authors: | Maciej Skoracki Bozena Sikora Michal Ozminski |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland |
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| Abstract: | Tinamiphilopsis ariconte n. sp., a syringophilid mite, is described from three tinamou species (Tinamidae), Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck) and Nothura boraquira (Spix) in Paraguay and N. minor (Spix) in Brazil. These data indirectly support the hypothesis that the cheyletoid-like predatory ancestor of the Syringophilidae switched to parasitism before the divergence of the avian hosts into the two major clades Palaeognathae and Neognathae. |
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