Affiliation:
1. Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Abstract
Two new species of pterygosomatid mites parasitizing geckos of the families Gekkonidae and Caprodactylidae are described:Geckobia africanan. sp. fromCnemaspis africana(Werner) from Tanzania andGeckobia miliin. sp. fromUnderwoodisaurus milii(Bory De Saint-Vincent) from Australia. The former species is the most similar toGeckobia loricataBerlese, 1892, but differs by the presence of the propodonotal shield reduced to small platelets, slender and blunt-pointed setae in the posterolateral part of the idiosomal venter and the absence of thick serrate ventral setae in posterior part of the idiosoma. For the latter species andGeckobia simplexHirst, 1926, a new species group is established based on the analysis of chaetotaxy of legs I–IV. Mites of this new species group differ from theindicagroup by the presence of five setae on tibiae I–III and setael’GI,l”GIV,dFI,dFII, andlFIII. Species of the genusGeckobiaare recorded from hosts of the generaCnemaspisStrauch andUnderwoodisaurusWermuth for the first time.
Funder
European Commission’s (FP6) Integrated Infrastructure Initiative Programme SYNTHESYS
Subject
General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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