Neoaulonastus zosterops Skoracki, Antczak and Riegert, 2009

Skoracki, Maciej & Mironov, Sergey V., 2013, New species and records of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from the passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) from the Russian Far East, Zootaxa 3641 (5), pp. 554-564 : 563

Neoaulonastus zosterops Skoracki, Antczak and Riegert, 2009

This species was described from Zosterops senegalensis Bonaparte (Zosteropidae) in Cameroon (Skoracki et al. 2009). Below we give a record of new host species, Zosterops erythropleurus Swinhoe , collected in Russia (new locality).

Material examined. From covert quills of Zosterops erythropleurus Swinhoe ( Passeriformes : Zosteropidae ): 7 females, RUSSIA, Primorsky Krai, Partizanskii District, Novolitovsk, 9 km N, 42º51’40”N; 132º53’5.5”E, 27 September 2008, coll. S.V. Mironov (SVM 08–0927–9/6). All material is deposited in the ZISP (ZISP–AVB011– 2908–058), except 2 females in the AMU (Reg. No. AMU–SYR.433).