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Aulonastus Kethley, 1970

Skoracki, Maciej, Spicer, Greg S. & Oconnor, Barry M., 2016, A systematiC review of the subfamily Syringophilinae (ACari: Syringophilidae) of the NearCtiC region. Part 1: quill mites assoCiated with passerines (Aves: Passeriformes), Zootaxa 4084 (4), pp. 451-494 : 454

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 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.1

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AD929587-1481-4D29-A62D-1E445D1D0546

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5311257

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scientific name

 Aulonastus Kethley, 1970
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Genus Aulonastus Kethley, 1970 View in CoL

Aulonastus Kethley, 1970: 47 View in CoL ; Skoracki 2011: 136.

Type species: Aulonastus pipili Kethley, 1970 , by original designation.

Representatives of the genus Aulonastus are found inside feather quills of secondaries, coverts and only occasionally inside contour feathers. They are associated with passerines of the families Cardinalidae , Emberizidae , Fringillidae , Icteridae , Laniidae , Motacillidae , Prunellidae , Rhinocriptidae, Turdidae , and Troglodytidae .

The Nearctic fauna comprises five of the 14 species described in this genus: A. emberizicus Skoracki et al., 2010 , A. euphagus Skoracki et al., 2010 , A. pipili Kethley, 1970 , A. pirangus Skoracki et al., 2010 , and A. sturnellus Skoracki et al., 2010 .

Kethley, J. B. (1970) A revision of the family Syringophilidae (Prostigmata: Acarina). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 5, 1 - 76.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Syringophilidae

Specimens