Ptilonyssus cerchneis Fain, 1957
Fig 108 (a). Ptilonyssus cerchneis female dorsal habitus.
Fig 108 (b). Ptilonyssus cerchneis female dorsum.
Fig 108 (c). Ptilonyssus cerchneis female venter.
North American host records:
Falconidae:
Falco sparverius,
American Kestrel
(Strandtmann 1962; Pence 1975; Knee et al. 2008)
Diagnostic characteristics:
- two dorsal shields, podosomal and pygidial shields
- pygidial shield in two fragments without subposterior setal pair on the
fragments
- posterior margin of podosomal shield is trilobed
- dorsal opisthosoma with narrow area of thickened cuticle
- serrated deutosternal teeth in a single file
- st1 on with st2 and st3 off the sternal shield
- subapical ventral setal pair on tarsus IV are relatively long strong spikes
- six pairs of ventral opisthosomal setae
- three pairs of mesolateral setae
- subposterior
pair of dorsal podosomal setae are longer than the longest mesolateral setae
- paranal setae posterior to anal opening, postanal seta absent
References:
Fain, A. 1957. Les acariens des familles Epidermoptidae et Rhinonyssidae
parasites des fosses nasales
d’oiseaux au Ruanda-Urundi et au
Congo Belge. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge
Tervuren, 60: 1-174.
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.
Strandtmann, R.W. 1962. A ptilonyssid mite from the sparrow hawk, Falco
sparverius.
Proceedings of the Entomological
Society of Washington, 64: 100-102.