Skoracki Maciej, Unsoeld Markus, Skorupski Maciej, Kavetska Katarzyna
Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznan, Poland,
Syst Parasitol. 2014 Jul;88(3):227-32. doi: 10.1007/s11230-014-9502-7. Epub 2014 Jun 17.
The fauna of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae Lavoipierre, 1953 (Acari: Prostigmata Cheyletoidea) parasitising birds of the family Rallidae Vigors (Gruiformes) is updated. A new species, Rafapicobia melzeri n. sp. (subfamily Picobiinae), is described from four host species: Rallus aquaticus Linnaeus (type-host) from Germany, Pardirallus sanguinolentus (Swainson) from Chile, Porzana porzana (Linnaeus) from France and P. parva (Scopoli) from Kirghizia. The new species is most similar to R. lepidocolaptesi Skoracki & Solarczyk, 2012 but differs in the absence of agenital plates and the length ratios of setae ag2:g1 and vi:ve:si in females and in the punctate ornament on the hysteronotal and the pygidial shields in males. A key to the species of the genus Rafapicobia is proposed. This is the first record of a representative of the subfamily Picobiinae on gruiform birds. Additionally, new rallid hosts are reported for Charadriphilus ralli Skoracki & Bochkov, 2010 (subfamily Syringophilinae): Gallinula melanops (Vieillot) from Chile, Laterallus melanophaius (Vieillot) from Paraguay, and P. parva (Scopoli) from Kirghizia.
对寄生于秧鸡科（Vigors，鹤形目）鸟类的羽管螨科（Lavoipierre，1953；蜱螨亚纲：前气门目蠕形螨总科）羽管螨动物区系进行了更新。描述了一个新物种，梅尔策拉法皮螨（Rafapicobia melzeri）新种（皮螨亚科），该新种来自四种宿主鸟类：德国的水秧鸡（Rallus aquaticus Linnaeus，模式宿主）、智利的红胸秧鸡（Pardirallus sanguinolentus (Swainson)）、法国的泽鹬（Porzana porzana (Linnaeus)）和吉尔吉斯斯坦的姬田鸡（P. parva (Scopoli)）。该新物种与2012年的鳞纹蚁鸟羽管螨（R. lepidocolaptesi Skoracki & Solarczyk）最为相似，但不同之处在于，雌性没有生殖板，且刚毛ag2:g1和vi:ve:si的长度比例不同，雄性的背板和尾板上有小孔状纹饰。提出了拉法皮螨属物种检索表。这是皮螨亚科代表在鹤形目鸟类上的首次记录。此外，还报告了2010年斯科拉茨基和博奇科夫描述的秧鸡羽管螨（Charadriphilus ralli Skoracki & Bochkov，羽管螨亚科）的新的秧鸡科宿主：智利的黑眶水鸡（Gallinula melanops (Vieillot)）、巴拉圭的黑喉水鸡（Laterallus melanophaius (Vieillot)）和吉尔吉斯斯坦的姬田鸡（P. parva (Scopoli)）。
