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A new species of the feather mite genus Titanolichus Gaud & Atyeo, 1996 (Acari: Astigmata: Pterolichidae) from the endangered orange‐bellied parrot Neophema chrysogaster (Aves: Psittaciformes) from Australia

2006; Wiley; Volume: 45; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1440-6055.2006.00535.x

1440-6055

Jacek Dabert, Sergey V. Mironov, H. C. Proctor,

Vector-borne infectious diseases

Abstract Titanolichus seemani sp. n., a new species of the genus Titanolichus Gaud & Atyeo, 1996, is described from a museum skin of the endangered orange‐bellied parrot Neophema chrysogaster (Latham) (Aves: Psittaciformes) from Australia. We also redescribe the type species Titanolichus chiragricus (Mégnin & Trouessart) from the ground parrot Pezoporus wallicus (Kerr), provide a key for all known species of Titanolichus and point out some problems in the systematics of this genus.