A new species of Pterodectine feather mites (acarina, analgoidea, proctophyllodidae) from the little spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra (Passeriformes, Nectariniidae) in Meghalaya, India

Abstract

The article describes a new species of the feather mite subfamily Pterodectinae from the Little Spider-hunter Arachnothera longirostra Temminck, 1826 (Passeriformes, Nectariniidae) in India. Pedanodectes angustilobus sp. n. differs from all known Pedanodectes species by having opisthosomal lobes short, at base wider than long, roughly rounded apically in males, and strongly elongated and narrowed lobar region with wide terminal appendages in females. A key to species of the genus Pedanodectes is presented. © Ioana Cristina Constantinescu et al.