Toggle navigation

Tyrannidectes banksi ( Valim and Hernandes, 2008 )

Mironov, Sergey V. & Galloway, Terry D., 2021, Feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acariformes: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines and kingfishers in Canada, Zootaxa 5016 (1), pp. 1-55 : 27-28

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5016.1.1

publication LSID

 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22814DB2-5BDA-44C2-BC00-37773209DA9F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CFAA50-FFC3-0147-5893-F8CDF968DAA4

treatment provided by

Plazi (2021-08-19 12:14:55, last updated 2023-11-04 03:56:46)

scientific name

 Tyrannidectes banksi ( Valim and Hernandes, 2008 )
status

 

Tyrannidectes banksi ( Valim and Hernandes, 2008)

Material examined. 3 females from Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) ( Passeriformes : Tyrannidae ), (SM 2581), CANADA, Manitoba, 11 July 2013, coll. T.D. Galloway and E.N. McNally.

This species is known only from the Eastern Phoebe, S. phoebe , and was formerly recorded in Texas, USA

( Valim & Hernandes, 2008, 2010). In Canada, this mite is recorded for the first time.

Valim, M. P. & Hernandes, F. A. (2008) Redescription of five species of the feather mite genus Pterodectes Robin, 1877 (Acari: Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae) with the proposal of a new genus and a new species. Acarina, 16 (2), 131 - 158.

Specimens