Boydaia saxicolae Fain, 1969

Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna, 2018, A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 4403 (3), pp. 401-440 : 425

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997227
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scientific name	Boydaia saxicolae Fain, 1969
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Boydaia saxicolae Fain, 1969: 370 , fig. 3, 1971: 98, 102, 108, fig. 4. Holotype in RMCA, examined. Type host: Saxicola torquatus axillaris (Shelley) View in CoL ( Passeriformes View in CoL : Muscicapidae View in CoL ) from Rwanda.

Diagnosis. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Setae ve present. Setae vi situated posterior to level of setae si. Sensillae SEa-type. Agenital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–0, trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 7–4–3–3, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–3–3. All setae on genu and tibia of leg I similar in shape. Claws of legs I–IV without basal angles. In larvae, antaxial and paraxial claw pair of leg I unequal, antaxial sharp-ended, paraxial blunt-ended.

Hosts and distribution. Passeriformes (Muscicapidae) : MOnticOla angOlensis de Sousa from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Akanyaru] , MyrmecOcichla nigra (Vieillot) from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Butare], and SaxicOla tOrquatus axillaris (Shelley) from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Butare, Akanyaru and Western Prov., Cyangugu] ( Fain 1969).