On the identity ofPterodectes ralliculaeAtyeo and Gaud, 1977 (Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae)

New feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines and woodpeckers (Aves: Passeriformes and Piciformes) in Vietnam

“…The genus Montesauria is the most species-rich genus in the subfamily Pterodectinae and currently includes 54 species arranged in nine species groups (Park & Atyeo 1971a;Mironov & Kopij 1996a, 1996b, 1997Mironov & Fain 2003;Kuroki et al 2006;Mironov 2006Mironov , 2008Mironov , 2009Hernandes et al 2010;). The majority of described species are associated with ten families of passerines, from both the infraorders Passerida and Corvida (Mironov, 2006), with two species recorded from a few non-passeriform hosts, namely from African barbets (Piciformes: Lybiidae) (Gaud & Mouchet 1957) and New Guinean rails (Gruiformes: Rallidae) (Atyeo & Gaud 1977;Hernandes et al 2010). All representatives of this genus were recorded from birds distributed in the Old World.…”

“…Pterodectines distributed in the Old World have been most extensively explored in Africa (Gaud 1952(Gaud , 1953(Gaud , 1957(Gaud , 1964(Gaud , 1979Till 1954Till , 1957Gaud & Mouchet 1957;Gaud & Till 1961;Mironov & Kopij 1996a, 1996b, 1997Mironov & Fain 2003;Mironov 2008, Mironov & Wauthy 2010. In the Oriental part of the Old World, mainly in countries of the Indo-Malayan region, these mites have been studied to a much lesser extent (Sugimoto 1941, Gaud & Petitot 1948Gaud 1962, 1968, Atyeo & Gaud 1977Mironov 2006;Kuroki et al 2006;Mironov et al 2008a, Mironov & Proctor 2009Hernandes et al 2010). Investigations of pterodectines in Europe and Northern Asia are not numerous at all, but this is explained by the fact that only a few species of the genera Alaudicola Mironov, 1996 andMontesauria Oudemans, 1905 and a single species of the genus Pterodectes Robin, 1877 are known to occur in these territories (Robin & Mégnin 1877;Oudemans 1905;Vassilev 1958; Č erný 1963; Mironov 1996).…”

New species of the feather mite subfamily Pterodectinae (Astigmata, Proctophyllodidae) from passerines in Senegal

“…Montesauria is the most species-rich genus in the subfamily Pterodectinae and currently includes 51 species (Park and Atyeo 1971;Mironov 2006Mironov , 2008Mironov , 2009Hernandes et al 2010). The majority of described species are associated with passerines with a few species recorded from African barbets (Piciformes, Lybiidae) and rails (Gruiformes, Rallidae).…”

“…In the New World, most representatives of pterodectines have been described from South America (Berla 1958(Berla , 1959a(Berla , b, c, 1960Černý 1974;OConnor et al 2005;Valim 2005, 2006;Valim and Hernandes 2006, 2008, 2009Mironov et al 2008b). To a much lesser extent these mites have been studied in other parts of the Old World, where they were described generally from the Indo-Malayan region (Sugimoto 1941;Gaud and Petitot 1948;Gaud 1962Gaud , 1968Atyeo and Gaud 1977;Mironov 1996Mironov , 2006Mironov , 2008Kuroki et al 2006;Mironov et al 2008a;Mironov and Proctor 2009;Hernandes et al 2010).…”

A new genus and species of pterodectine feather mite (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from Tod-Tyrants in Brazil (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae)

“…Park and Atyeo (1971a) established the subfamily Pterodectinae and arranged all species known by that time into twelve morphologically distinct genera. Nowadays, approximately 200 pterodectine species are known, arranged in 26 genera, and associated mainly with passerines (Passeriformes) and hummingbirds (Apodiformes), although some representatives have also been reported from the orders Coraciiformes, Piciformes, Musophagiformes, Caprimulgiformes, and Gruiformes Atyeo 1971a, 1975;Gaud and Atyeo 1996;Mironov 2006Mironov , 2009Hernandes et al 2010;Valim and Hernandes 2010).…”