Species Titanolichus chiragricus (Mégnin & Trouessart, 1884)

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• Pterolichus chiragricus 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.

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)

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 Titanolichus chiragricus)

Dabert, J., Mironov, S.V. & Proctor, H. 2006. A new species of the feather mite genus Titanolichus Gaud & Atyeo, 1996 (Acari: Astigmata: Pterolichidae) from the endangered orange-bellied parrot Neophema chyrsogaster (Aves: Psittaciformes) from Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 45: 206–214 (as Titanolichus chiragricus)

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 Titanolichus chiragricus)

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 Titanolichus chiragricus)

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