Michaelia heteropus (Michael, 1881)

Eren, Gökhan, Öztürk, Mehmet, Mironov, Sergey V., Nisbet, Hatice Özlem & Açici, Mustafa, 2023, New records of feather mites (Sarcoptiformes: Astigmata) from some birds in Türkiye, Acarological Studies 5 (2), pp. 58-68 : 62

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.47121/acarolstud.1244323

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10377832

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FD08AF40-EC71-042A-1B0C-F948D1753BB7

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scientific name

Michaelia heteropus (Michael, 1881)
status

 

Michaelia heteropus (Michael, 1881)

Materials examined. 2 males and 2 females from flight feathers of the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Pelecaniformes : Phalacrocoracidae ), Samsun, Türkiye, 19 January 2022, coll. M. Öztürk (as shown in Fig. 4 View Figure 4 ).

Remarks. The genus Michaelia includes five described species, and all of them are associated with cormorants ( Phalacrocoracidae ) in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe ( Dubinin, 1953; Gaud and Atyeo, 1982; Hernandes et al., 2016). In the present study, Michaelia heteropus on the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo , is reported for the first time in Türkiye.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Acari

Family

Lohmanniidae

Genus

Michaelia

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