Boydaia psalidoprocnei Fain, 1956

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Boydaia psalidoprocnei Fain, 1956

Boydaia psalidoprocnei Fain, 1956b: 650 , 660, figs. 22–24, 1963c: 57, figs. 16, 17, 1963d: 56, 67, fig. 27. Holotype in RMCA, examined.

Boydaia (Boydaia) psalidoprocnei, Fain 1971: 100 , 109, figs. 26, 27; Pence 1973a: 365. Type host: Psalidoprocne albiceps Sclater ( Passeriformes : Hirundinidae ) from Rwanda.

Diagnosis. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Setae ve present. Setae vi situated posterior to level of setae si. Sensillae SEd-type. Agenital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–2–0, trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 5–4–3–3, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–3–3. Setae l' on genu I, d and l' on tibia I eggshaped and dissimilar to other setae of respectively podomer. In larvae, antaxial and paraxial claw pair of leg I subequal, antaxial sharp-ended, paraxial blunt-ended.

Host and distribution. Passeriformes (Hirundinidae) : PsalidOprOcne albiceps Sclater from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Akanyaru] ( Fain 1956b).

Non-African hosts and distribution. Hirundinidae : Riparia riparia (Linnaeus) from Russia (Zabludovskaya 1998) and Ukraine (Zabludovskaya 2012), Tachycineta bicOlOr (Vieillot) from USA (Pence 1973a).