Betasyringophiloidus seiuri ( Clark, 1964 ) Skoracki & Spicer & Oconnor, 2016

Skoracki, Maciej, Spicer, Greg S. & Oconnor, Barry M., 2016, A systematiC review of the subfamily Syringophilinae (ACari: Syringophilidae) of the NearCtiC region. Part 1: quill mites assoCiated with passerines (Aves: Passeriformes), Zootaxa 4084 (4), pp. 451-494 : 458-460

Betasyringophiloidus seiuri ( Clark, 1964) comb. nov.

( Figs. 3A–D )

Syringophilus seiuri Clark, 1964: 82 , figs. 7, 20, 24, 25. Types deposited in FMNH and USNM, examined. Syringophiloidus seiurus, Kethley 1970: 50 .

Syringophiloidus seiuri, Bochkov & Galloway 2001: 2025 , fig. 9.

Syringophiloidus zonotrichia Bochkov et al., 2011 syn. nov: 203, fig. 1.

Type host: Seiurus aurocapilla ( Passeriformes : Parulidae ). Type locality: USA (Maryland).

Additional material. One female and 1 male (UMMZ BMOC 81-0821-2) from Seiurus aurocapilla (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Parulidae ), USA: Michigan, Oakland Co., received from Nankin Mills Nature Center, 17 May 1966, coll. B. M. OConnor, all material in UMMZ; 9 females and 2 males (UMMZ BMOC 81-0821-9) from Oreothlypis peregrina (Wilson) ( Passeriformes : Parulidae ), USA: Michigan, Oakland Co., received from Nankin Mills nature Center, 22 September 1964, coll. B. M. OConnor, all material in UMMZ, except 2 females and 1 male in AMU; 12 females and 4 males (UMMZ BMOC 85-0913-1) from Geothlypis philadelphia (Wilson) ( Passeriformes : Parulidae ), USA: Massachusetts, Berkshire Co., Great Barrington, 26 May 1984, coll. J. Renner, all material in UMMZ, except 2 females and 1 male in AMU; 6 females and 1 male (FMNH uncatalogued) from Setophaga palmarum (Gmelin) ( Passeriformes : Parulidae ), USA: Florida, Leon Co., 21 March 1961, coll. J. B. Kethley, all material in FMNH; 7 females and 1 male (FMNH uncatalogued) from Setophaga pensylvanica (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes : Parulidae ), USA: Florida, Leon Co., 6 October 1956, coll. J. B. Kethley, all material in FMNH; 12 females (AMU-SYR.302) from Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin) ( Passeriformes : Emberizidae ), USA, Texas, Johnson Co., Garen Ranch, 21 March 2004; coll. G. S. Spicer (field no. GSS 2018), all material in AMU, SFSU and ZISP; 10 females (FMNH uncatalogued) from same host species, USA: Florida, Leon Co., 22 October 1957, coll. J. B. Kethley, all material in FMNH; 2 females (ZISP AVB uncatalogued) from same host species, CANADA: Manitoba, Winnipeg, 5 May 1999, coll. T. D. Galloway, all material in ZISP; 2 females (AMU- SYR.755) from Melospiza melodia (Wilson) ( Passeriformes : Emberizidae ), USA: Texas, Hood Co., W. Jones Ranch, 22 March 2004, coll. G.S. Spicer (field no. GSS 1537), all material in AMU; 5 females (FMNH uncatalogued) from Melospiza georgiana (Latham) ( Passeriformes : Emberizidae ), USA: Florida, 24 October 1957, coll. J. B. Kethley, all material in FMNH; 10 females (AMU-SYR.756) from Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon) ( Passeriformes : Emberizidae ), USA: Texas, Johnson Co., Garen Ranch, 21 March 2004, coll. G. S. Spicer (field no. GSS 2013), all material in AMU.

Hosts and distribution. Parulidae : Geothlypis philadelphia (Wilson) from USA (Massachusetts) (present paper), Seiurus aurocapilla (Linnaeus) from USA ( Carolina , Florida, Maryland, Michigan) ( Clark 1964; Kethley 1970; present paper) and Canada (Manitoba) ( Bochkov & Galloway 2001), Helmitheros vermivorum (Gmelin) from USA (Maryland) ( Clark 1964), Oreothlypis peregrina (Wilson) [new host] from USA (Michigan) (present paper), O. ruficapilla (Wilson) from USA (California) ( Bochkov et al. 2011), Setophaga palmarum (Gmelin) [new host] from USA (Florida), and S. pensylvanica (Linnaeus) [new host] from USA (Florida) (present paper).

Emberizidae : Melospiza georgiana (Latham) [new host] from USA (Florida) (present paper), M. lincolnii (Audubon) [new host] from USA (Texas) ( Bochkov et al. 2011; present paper), M. melodia (Wilson) from USA (Maryland, Texas) ( Clark 1964; present paper), Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin) [new host] from USA (Florida, Texas) and Canada (Manitoba) ( Bochkov et al. 2011; present paper).

Ploceidae : Quelea erythrops (Hartlaub) from Togo, Pachyphantes superciliosus (Shelley) from Togo, Ploceus baglafecht (Daudin) from Congo ( Skoracki & Dabert 2002), and P. xanthops (Hartlaub) from Kenya (Klimovicova et al. 2014).

Remarks. Possibilities of type material examination of Syringophilus seiuri described by Clark (1964) and deposited in the FMNH, allows us to move this species to the genus Betasyringophiloidus (one pair of pseudanal setae present). Because, all morphological characters and setae measurements of Syringophiloidus zonotrichia Bochkov et al., 2011 perfectly correspond with Betasyringophiloidus seiuri we consider S. zonotrichia as a junior synonym of B. seiuri .

Figures

FIGURE 3 A – D. Betasyringophiloidus seiuri (Clark, 1964) comb. nov., female. A, dorsal view; B, ventral view; C, peritremes; D, fan-like seta p'III. Scale bars: A, B = 100 µm, C, D = 20 µm.