A new genus of syringophilid mites (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophitidae) from cuculiform birds (Aves: Cuculiformes)

Abstract

Cuculisyringophilus crotophaginus gen. n. et sp. n. is described from the guira cuckoo Guira guira (Gmelin) from Paraguay and also was collected from the groove-billed ani Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson from Colombia and Mexico. This new genus is closely related to Neoaulobia Fain, Bochkov et Mironov, 2000 but is distinguished by the following characters: propodosomal setae sce are situated distinctly anterior to level of setae dl, leg setae vs'II are absent, apodemes I are divergent.