Two new species of the genus Trouessartia (Acari, Trouessartiidae) from laughingthrushes (Passeriformes, Leiothrichidae)

Ioana Cristina Constantinescu; Ioana Cobzaru; D Khlur B Mukhim; Costică Adam

doi:10.3897/zookeys.571.7724

Two new species of the genus Trouessartia (Acari, Trouessartiidae) from laughingthrushes (Passeriformes, Leiothrichidae)

Zookeys. 2016 Mar 7:(571):59-79. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.571.7724. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Ioana Cristina Constantinescu¹, Ioana Cobzaru², D Khlur B Mukhim³, Costică Adam¹

Affiliations

¹ "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History, Sos. Kiseleff no.1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania.
² Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation Department, Institute of Biology, Romanian Academy, Splaiul Independenței no. 296, 060031 Bucharest, Romania.
³ Zoology Department, Lady Keane College, 793001 Shillong, Meghalaya, India.

Abstract

Two new feather mite species of the genus Trouessartia Canestrini are described from laughingthrushes (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae) captured in Meghalaya (India): Trouessartia cyanouropterae sp. n. from Actinodura cyanouroptera (Hodgson) and Trouessartia alcippeae sp. n. from Alcippe nipalensis (Hodgson). It is the first time when species of the genus Trouessartia are described from leiothrichids.

Keywords: Acari; Trouessartiidae; new species; systematics.