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Descriptions of two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia: Pteronyssidae) from Ivory Coast

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Two new feather mite species of the family Pteronyssidae Oudemans, 1941 collected from birds captured in Ivory Coast are described: Pteronyssoides cyanomitrae n. sp. from Cyanomitra obscura (Jardine) (Passeriformes: Nectariniidae) and Conomerus pygmaeus n. sp. from Hylia prasina (Cassin) (Passeriformes: Macrosphenidae). Pteronyssoides cyanomitrae n. sp. belongs to the nectariniae species group and differs from the closest species, P. garioui Gaud & Mouchet, 1959, in having, in males, the adanal shield present and setae f longer than setae d on the tarsus III; females of this species have the hysteronotal shield with two small median incisions on the anterior margin barely extending beyond the level of setae e2. Conomerus pygmaeus n. sp. is the first species of this genus found on a passerine host, and seems to be more similar to C. sclerosternus Gaud, 1990. This new species has the following distinctive characters: in females, the opisthosoma has small lobe-like extensions and the central sclerite is fused posteriorly with the lateral opisthosomal sclerites; in males, coxal fields I–IV lack large sclerotised areas.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the help of our collaborators in Ivory Coast during the field work in 2013: Dr Stéphane Kouassi Kan and Dr Kouassi Eugéne Koffi (Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire), Dr Kouamé Bertin Akpatou and Ekoun Michael Konan (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny, UFR Biosciences). Special thanks to the institutions in Ivory Coast who supported the research with the relevant permits and logistics: SODEFOR (Société de développement des Forêts), IPCI (Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire) and OIPR (Office Ivoirien des Parcs et Réserves). Many thanks to anonymous referees for their much appreciated suggestions, which have greatly improved the quality of the paper.

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This study was funded by UEFISCDI Grant PCE IDEI 236/2011.

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  1. “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Sos. Kiseleff no.1, 011341, Bucharest 1, Romania

    Ioana Cristina Constantinescu, Costică Adam & Gabriel Bogdan Chișamera

  2. Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, 22 BP 770, Abidjan 22, Côte d’Ivoire

    Patrick Kouassi Yao & Yaokokore-Béibro Hilare

  3. Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăștur 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Gianluca D’Amico, Călin M. Gherman, Andrei D. Mihalca & Attila D. Sándor

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All applicable institutional, national and international guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. Bird captures were authorised by Office Ivoriene des Parcs et Reserves, license number 105/MINESUDD/OIPR/DG, 4 April 2013 and Societe de Developpment des Forets, license number 00554-13/DT/SRDC/AK, 15 March 2013.

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Constantinescu, I.C., Adam, C., Yao, P.K. et al. Descriptions of two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia: Pteronyssidae) from Ivory Coast. Syst Parasitol 95, 281–292 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9769-6

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