Sikora Bozena, Unsoeld Markus, Melzer Roland R, Friedrich Stefan, Skoracki Maciej
Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
SNSB-Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Sektion Ornithology, Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 Munich, Germany.
Animals (Basel). 2023 Apr 29;13(9):1509. doi: 10.3390/ani13091509.
While birds-of-paradise (Passeriformes: Paradisaeidae) are a well-known group of birds, our understanding of their parasites is still limited. This study reports on parasitic quill mites of the subfamily Picobiinae (Acariformes: Syringophilidae), which have never before been recorded on this group of birds. The mite specimens presented in this paper were collected from birds-of-paradise that had been captured in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in the years 1910-1911 and are now deposited in the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany. Two syringophilid species are described as new to science: (i) sp. n. from the magnificent riflebird , the glossy-mantled manucode , and the crinkle-collared manucode , and (ii) sp. n. from the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise and the lesser bird-of-paradise . We hypothesise that the presence of both picobiine species on phylogenetically unrelated paradisaeids may be caused by the sexual behaviour of these birds, where interspecific copulations may play a role in the switching of parasites between non-closely related host species.
虽然极乐鸟（雀形目：极乐鸟科）是一类广为人知的鸟类，但我们对其寄生虫的了解仍然有限。本研究报告了羽管螨亚科（蜱螨目：嗜羽螨科）的寄生羽管螨，此前从未在这类鸟类身上记录到过。本文展示的螨类标本采集自1910 - 1911年在巴布亚新几内亚和印度尼西亚捕获的极乐鸟，现存放于德国慕尼黑的巴伐利亚州动物学收藏馆。描述了两个嗜羽螨科新物种：（i）来自华丽极乐鸟、辉羽极乐鸟和皱领极乐鸟的新物种；（ii）来自十二线极乐鸟和小极乐鸟的新物种。我们推测，在系统发育上不相关的极乐鸟物种上同时出现这两种羽管螨亚科螨类，可能是由这些鸟类的性行为导致的，种间交配可能在非亲缘关系较近的宿主物种之间寄生虫的转移中起作用。
