Ptilonyssus callinectoides (Brooks and Strandtmann, 1960)
Fig 96 (a). Ptilonyssus callinectoides female dorsal habitus.
Fig 96 (b). Ptilonyssus callinectoides female dorsum.
Fig 96 (c). Ptilonyssus callinectoides female venter.
Ptilonyssus (=Tyranninyssus) callinectoides (Brooks and Strandtmann, 1960)
North American host records:
Tyrannidae:
Myiarchus cinerascens,
Ash-throated
Flycatcher (Brooks and Strandtmann 1969; Pence 1975)
Myiarchus crinitus,
Great Crested
Flycatcher (Pence 1972, 1973, 1975; Knee et al. 2008)
Myiarchus tyrannulus,
Brown-crested
Flycatcher (Hyland and Moorhouse 1970)
Diagnostic characteristics:
- two dorsal
shields, podosomal and fused opisthosomal and pygidial shields
- podosomal shield with lateral winglike processes
- posterior margin of podosomal shield is rounded
- opisthosomal shield is twice as long as wide
- lateral excavation of the posterior portion of the opisthosomal shield
- posterior margin of opisthosomal shield is rounded
- anterior margin of opisthosomal shield is straight
- st1 st2 and st3 on the sternal shield
- subapical ventral setal pair on tarsus IV are relatively long strong spikes with a
rounded terminus
- four pairs of ventral opisthosomal setae
- two pairs of mesolateral setae
- mesolateral setae all approximately equal in length, there are not two pairs
of setae that are twice as long as another setal pair
- subposterior
pair of dorsal podosomal setae are as long or almost
as long as the longest mesolateral setae
- dorsum of genu III with oblique row of four stout spine setae close
together
- paranal setae level with anal opening, paranal and postanal setae are unequal in
length
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some West
Texas flycatchers (Tyrannidae).
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Hyland, K.E., and Moorhouse, A. 1970. Nasal mites from Mexican birds. I.
Rhinonyssidae
(Mesostigmata) from the host family
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Ereynetidae,
and Turbinoptidae) associated with birds in Alberta and
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(Dermanyssidae: Rhinonyssinae) with
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