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Niglarobia vanelli, a new species of syringophilid quill mite associated with lapwings (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae)

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A new species of quill mite of the family Syringophilidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata), Niglarobia vanelli sp. nov. collected from eight species of the lapwing genus Vanellus (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae), is described: V. vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type host) from Germany, V. gregarius (Pallas, 1771) from Russia, V. senegallus (Linnaeus, 1766), V. albiceps Gould, 1834, V. spin-osus (Linnaeus, 1758), V. crassirostris (Hartlaub, 1855), V. lugubris (Lesson, 1826), and V. coronatus (Boddaert, 1783) all from Tanzania. This new species resembles N. cursoriae Skoracki et al., 2006 and differs by having the following features: in females of N. vanelli sp. nov., each medial branch of the peritremes has 3–4 chambers (vs 2 chambers in N. cursoriae); the hysterono-tal shield is not fused to the pygidial shield (vs fused); lengths of setae d2 and e2 are 55–65 and 95–120, respectively (vs 115–140 and 130–160); and setae p’ and p” of legs III and IV have 4–6 tines (vs 7 tines).

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  1. Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland

    Mateusz Zmudzinski & Maciej Skoracki

  2. Laboratory and Museum of Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Presov, 17 novembra 1, 080 01, Prešov, Slovakia

    Maciej Skoracki & Martin Hromada

  3. Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Prof. Z. Szafrana 1, 65-516, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Martin Hromada

  4. Ornithological Section, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Muenchhausenstrasse 21, 81247, Munich, Germany

    Markus Unsoeld

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Zmudzinski, M., Skoracki, M., Hromada, M. et al. Niglarobia vanelli, a new species of syringophilid quill mite associated with lapwings (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae). Acta Parasit. 63, 704–708 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1515/ap-2018-0082

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