Sternostoma longisetosae Hyland, 1961
Fig 83 (a). Sternostoma longisetosae female dorsal habitus.
Fig 83 (b). Sternostoma longisetosae female dorsum.
Fig 83 (c). Sternostoma longisetosae female venter.
North American host records:
Tyrannidae:
Empidonax alnorum,
Alder Flycatcher
(Hyland and Moorhouse 1970; Pence 1975)
Empidonax minimus,
Least Flycatcher
(Knee et al. 2008)
Empidonax traillii,
Willow Flycatcher
(Hyland and Moorhouse 1970; Pence 1975)
Empidonax virescens,
Acadian
Flycatcher (Hyland and Moorhouse 1970; Pence 1975)
Pyrocephalus rubinus,
Vermilion
Flycatcher (Hyland and Moorhouse 1970; Pence 1975)
Tyrannus savana,
Fork-tailed
Flycatcher (Hyland and Moorhouse 1970)
Tyrannus tyrannus,
Eastern Kingbird
(Hyland 1961; Pence 1975; Knee et al. 2008)
Diagnostic characteristics:
- apical setal pair on palp tarsus is proximally inflated, medially
constricted, and distally flattened, resembling a T with an inflated base
- subapical ventral and ventrolateral setae of tarsi II - IV are relatively long
spines
- no setae in the dorsal opisthosomal unsclerotized integument
- paranal setae level with anal opening, and postanal seta absent
References:
Hyland, K.E. 1961. Sternostoma longisetosa, a new species of nasal mite from
the eastern kingbird with notes on
the occurrence of Tyranninyssus spinosus
Brooks and Strandtmann in southern
Michigan (Acarina: Rhinonyssidae). Acarologia, 3: 279-284.
Hyland, K.E., and Moorhouse, A. 1970. Nasal mites from Mexican birds.
I. Rhinonyssidae (Mesostigmata) from
the host family Tyrannidae. Acarologia, 12: 43-58.
Knee, W., Proctor,
H., and Galloway, T. 2008. Survey of nasal mites (Rhinonyssidae,
Ereynetidae,
and Turbinoptidae) associated with birds in Alberta and
Manitoba, Canada. Canadian Entomologist,
140: 364-379.
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.