Proctophyllodes troncatus Robin, 1877

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 : 61

Proctophyllodes troncatus Robin, 1877

Materials examined. 1 male and 1 tritonymph from flight feathers the barn owl, Tyto alba ( Strigiformes : Tytonidae ), Samsun, Türkiye, 1 January 2022, coll. by M. Öztürk.

Remarks. The feather mite Proctophyllodes troncatus is associated with the sparrows of the genus Passer ( Passeridae ) in worldwide (Europa, Asia, Africa, and America) (Atyeo and Braasch, 1966; Gaud and Atyeo, 1976), and the finding on the barn owl, Tyto alba , in this study is most probably a case of contamination most probabaly caused by the interaction between prey and predator. In studies previously conducted in Türkiye, P. troncatus from the house sparrow Passer domesticus and the Spanish sparrow P. hispaniolensis has been reported ( Gürler et al., 2013).