TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Morphotypes of New World Rhytidelasma Gaud (Acarina, Pterolichidae), with (re)descriptions of five named and one new species
VL  - 29
IS  - 2
SP  - 175
EP  - 187
PY  - 1988
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Atyeo, W.T.
AU  - Gaud, J.
AU  - Perez, T.M.
UR  - https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=2556
DA  - 1988-06-18
KW  - Feather mites
KW  - parrots
KW  - Rhytidelasma
KW  - genus revised
KW  - new taxa
KW  - nearctic region
AB  - Six males morphotypes of the feather mite genus Rhytidelasma Gaud (Pterolichoidea, Pterolichidae) are known from Nex World parrots. The five described and one new species each represent a different morphotype, namely, R. dilatata (Trouessart) [= Pterolichus (Pseudalloptes) tritiventris dilatatusJ, n. comb., n. stat., l. from Ara nobilis (L.); R. tritiventris (Trouessart) and R. ulocerca (Trouessart) from Ara chloroptera Gray; R. tenuis (Trouessart) [= Pterolichus (Pseudalloptes) tenuis ] n. comb., from Pion us menstruus  (L.); R. forficiventris (Trouessart) from Pionites leucogaster (Kiihl); and R.mesomexicana, n. sp. from Aratinga holochlora (ScIater). Each species is (re)described; the morphology of immatures and host-parasite associations are discussed. Another new combination: Rhytidelasma lambda (Trouessart) (= Pseudalloptes lambda).
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