Sternostoma boydi Strandtmann, 1951
Fig 86 (a). Sternostoma boydi female dorsal habitus.
Fig 86 (b). Sternostoma boydi female dorsum.
Fig 86 (c). Sternostoma boydi female venter.
North American host records:
Laridae:
Larus argentatus, Herring Gull
(TerBush 1963; Pence 1972, 1975)
Larus atricilla,
Laughing Gull
(Pence 1975)
Larus californicus,
California Gull
(Spicer 1978)
Larus delawarensis,
Ring-billed Gull
(Pence 1972, 1975)
Larus occidentalis,
Western Gull
(Spicer 1978)
Sterna forsteri,
Forster’s Tern (Mitchell 1961)
Sterna hirundo,
Common Tern
(Pence 1972, 1975)
Scolopacidae:
Arenaria interpres,
Ruddy Turnstone
(Pence 1975; Canadian National Collection
of Insects and Arachnids)
Calidris alba,
Sanderling
(Strandtmann 1951; Pence 1975)
Calidris canutus,
Red Knot (Mitchell 1961)
Tringa melanoleuca,
Greater
Yellowlegs (Mitchell 1961; Pence 1972, 1975)
Diagnostic characteristics:
- subapical ventral setal pair on tarsi II - IV are short flattened setae
with rounded tips
- no setae in the dorsal opisthosomal unsclerotized integument
- paranal setae posterior to anal opening, and postanal seta absent
References:
Mitchell, R.W. 1961. New avian host records for some mesostigmatid mites. The
Southwestern Naturalist, 6:
103-105.
Pence, D.B. 1972. The nasal mites of birds from Louisiana II. The genus
Sternostoma
(Dermanyssidae: Rhinonyssinae).
Journal of Parasitology, 58: 781-889.
Pence, D.B. 1975. Keys, species and host list, and bibliography for nasal mites
of
North American birds (Acarina: Rhinonyssinae, Turbinoptinae,
Speleognathinae,
and Cytoditidae). Special Publications of the Museum Texas
Tech University,
8:
1-148.
Spicer, G.S. 1978. A new species and several new host records of avian
nasal mites
(Acarina: Rhinonyssinae,
Turbinoptinae). Journal of Parasitology, 64: 891-894.
Strandtmann, R.W. 1951. The mesostigmatic nasal mites of birds. II. New and
poorly known species of
Rhinonyssidae. Journal of Parasitology, 37: 129-140.
TerBush, L.E. 1963. Incidence of nasal mites in different age classes of
herring
gulls (Larus argentatus). Journal of
Parasitology,
49: 525.