Toxerodectes biscutatus Park & Atyeo, 1973

Hernandes, Fabio Akashi, 2013, The feather mites (Acari, Astigmata) of the Violet-capped Woodnymph, Thalurania glaucopis (Gmelin) (Aves, Trochilidae), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3616 (6), pp. 563-577 : 575

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:05C89903-B7A0-45BC-B316-931E789BDAFD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151655
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/05530039-2207-B868-FF27-1386FAA6F8BC
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Toxerodectes biscutatus Park & Atyeo, 1973
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Toxerodectes biscutatus Park & Atyeo, 1973

This species is characterized by a pair of small anal shields in males. The only previous record in Brazil is from Thalurania furcata (Gmelin) (Kanegae et al. 2008) . (Collection data as in the new species described herein).

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Astigmata
SubOrder	Astigmata
Family	Proctophyllodidae
Genus	Toxerodectes

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Apodiformes
SubOrder	Astigmata
Family	Trochilidae
Genus	Thalurania

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