Species Apexolichus affinis (Mégnin & Trouessart, 1884)

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• Pterolichus affinis Mégnin, P. & Trouessart, E.L. 1884. Les Sarcoptides plumicoles. Révision du groupe des Analgesinae, et description des espèces et genres nouveaux de la collection du Musée d'Angers. Journal de Micrographie 8: 257-266 [in part].
• Protolichus distensus Favette, J. & Trouessart, E. 1904. Monographie du genre Protolichus (Trt) et revision des sarcoptides plumicoles (Analgesinae) qui vivent sur les perroquets. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 17: 120-166 pls V-XV.

Introduction

Pterolichus affinis was described by Mégnin & Trouessart (1884), who included a comment that this species could be a variety of P. chiragricus Mégnin & Trouessart, 1884. Canestrini & Kramer (1999) show P. affinis to be partly a synonym of P. chiragricus and partly a synonym of P. velifer Mégnin & Trouessart, 1884. It is not clear how the syntypes of P. affinis should be distributed between the latter two species, so the question of synonymy of these three names cannot be fully resolved at the moment.

General References

Canestrini, G. & Kramer, P. 1899. Demodicidae and Sarcoptidae. Das Tierreich 7: 1-193 (Reprinted 1965 by Verlag Cramer, Weinheim) (as Pterolichus velifer)

Dabert, J., Mironov, S.V. & Ehrnsberger, R. 2008. Systematic revision of the feather mite genera Apexolichus Gaud et Atyeo and Titanolichus Gaud et Atyeo (Astigmata, Pterolichidae), parasites of parrots of the Old World (Psittaciformes, Psittacidae). Acta Parasitologica 53: 46–80 (as Apexolichus affinis)

Favette, J. & Trouessart, E. 1904. Monographie du genre Protolichus (Trt) et revision des sarcoptides plumicoles (Analgesinae) qui vivent sur les perroquets. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 17: 120-166 pls V-XV (as Protolichus velifer)

Gaud, J. & Atyeo, W.T. 1996. Feather mites of the world (Acarina, Astigmata) The supraspecific taxa. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique 277: Pt I, 1-193, Pt II, 1-436 (as Apexolichus affinis)

Mironov, S.V., Dabert, J. & Proctor, H.C. 2003. New feather mites of the family Pterolichidae (Acari: Pterolichoidea) from parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes) in Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 42: 185–202 (as Apexolichus affinis)

Radford, C.D. 1953. The mites (Acarina : Analgesidae) living on or in the feathers of birds. Parasitology 42: 199-230 (as Protolichus velifer)

Rainbow, W.J. 1906. A synopsis of Australian Acarina. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 145-193 (as Pterolichus chiragricus; as Pterolichus velifer)

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