A new quill mite Syringophiloidus plocei sp. nov. (Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitizing ploceid birds (Passeriformes) in Gabon – a combined description using morphology and DNA barcoding

Eliza Glowska; Lukasz Broda; Christina A. Gebhard; Miroslawa Dabert

doi:10.1515/ap-2016-0075

Article

A new quill mite Syringophiloidus plocei sp. nov. (Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitizing ploceid birds (Passeriformes) in Gabon – a combined description using morphology and DNA barcoding

Eliza Glowska , Lukasz Broda , Christina A. Gebhard and Miroslawa Dabert

Published/Copyright: July 21, 2016

Published by

Become an author with De Gruyter Brill

Author Information

From the journal Acta Parasitologica Volume 61 Issue 3

Abstract

A new species of quill mites (Syringophilidae) Syringophiloidus plocei sp. nov. parasitizing Ploceus cucullatus (St. Muller) (type host), P. aurantius (Vieillot) and P. nigerrimus (Vieillot) (Ploceidae: Passeriformes) in Gabon is described using external morphology and DNA barcode data (the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I sequences (COI) and D1–D3 region of the nuclear 28S rRNA gene). Females of S. plocei sp. nov. differ from S. pseudonigritaeGlowska, Dragun-Damian and Dabert, 2012 by the length of setae ag3 190–230 (vs 145–160). The genetic distances (K2P) between COI haplotypes of S. plocei sp. nov. individuals (from P. cucullatus, P. nigerrimus and P. aurantius) and S. pseudonigritae ranges from 13.1–13.7%.

Keywords: Quill mites; ectoparasites; Ploceus; systematics; DNA barcodes

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the staff of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Birds, USNM for making the collection of feathers available for this study. This study was supported by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN 2014/15/B/NZ8/00208) (EG).

References

Bochkov A.V., Fain A., Skoracki M. 2004. New quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Cheyletoidea). Systematic Parasitology, 57, 135–150. DOI: 10.1023/B:SYPA.0000013858.86399.69Search in Google Scholar

Bochkov A.V., Mironov S.V. 1999. New quill mite species of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Cheyletoidea) from European part of Russia. Acarina, 7, 35–45Search in Google Scholar

Bochkov A.V., OConnor B.M., Wauthy G. 2008. Phylogenetic position of the family Myobiidae within the Prostigmata (Acari: Acariformes). Zoologische Anzeiger, 247, 15–4510.1016/j.jcz.2006.12.003Search in Google Scholar

Casto S.D. 1976. Host records and observations of quill mites (Acarina: Syringophilidae) from Texas birds. Southwestern Entomologist, 1, 155–160Search in Google Scholar

Clements J.F., Schulenberg T.S., Iliff M.J., Roberson D., Fredericks T.A., Sullivan B.L., Wood C.L. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/6.9. (accessed 10 December 2015)Search in Google Scholar

Dabert J., Ehrnsberger R., Dabert M. 2008. Glaucalges tytonis sp. n. (Analgoidea, Xolalgidae) from the barn owl Tyto alba (Strigiformes, Tytonidae): compiling morphology with DNA barcode data for taxon descriptions in mites (Acari). Zootaxa, 1719, 41–52. DOI: 10.11646/%25xSearch in Google Scholar

Fain A., Bochkov A.V., Mironov S.V. 2000. New genera and species of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata). Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 70, 33–70Search in Google Scholar

Glowska E., Chrzanowski M., Kaszewska K. 2015. Checklist of the Quill mites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) of the World. Zootaxa, 3968, 1–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3968.1.1Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Glowska E., Dragun-Damian A., Dabert J. 2012a. A new quill mite Syringophiloidus pseudonigritae sp. nov. (Prostigmata, Syringophilidae) parasitizing Pseudonigrita arnaudi (Passeriformes, Ploceidae) – a combined description using morphology and DNA barcode data. Zootaxa, 3532, 64–68. DOI: 10.11646/%25xSearch in Google Scholar

Glowska E., Dragun-Damian A., Dabert J. 2012b. Picobia dziabaszewskii sp. nov. (Acari, Syringophilidae) – combined description (morphology with DNA barcode data) of a new quill mite species parasitizing Garrulax formosus (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae). Zootaxa, 3224, 57–61. DOI: 10.11646/%25xSearch in Google Scholar

Glowska E., Dragun-Damian A., Dabert J. 2013. DNA-barcoding contradicts morphology in quill mite species Torotrogla merulae and T. rubeculi (Prostigmata: Syringophilidae). Folia Parasitologica, 60, 51–60. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2013.007Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Glowska E., Dragun-Damian A., Broda L., Dabert J., Dabert M. 2014. DNA barcodes reveal female dimorphism in syringophilid mites (Actinotrichida: Prostigmata: Cheyletoidea): Stibarokris phoeniconaias and Ciconichenophilus phoeniconaias are conspecific. Folia Parasitologica, 61, 272–276. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2014.030Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Glowska E., Schmidt B.K. 2014. New quill mites (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing the black-headed paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer (Passeriformes: Monarchidae) in Gabon. Zootaxa, 3786, 57–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.1.3Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Grandjean F. 1939. Les segments postlarvaires de l’hysterosoma chez les oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 64, 273–284Search in Google Scholar

Grandjean F. 1944. Observations sur les acariens de la famille Stigmaeidae. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 26, 103–131Search in Google Scholar

Kethley J.B. 1970. A revision of the family Syringophilidae (Prostigmata: Acarina). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 5, 1–76Search in Google Scholar

Kethley J.B. 1990. Acarina: Prostigmata (Actinedida). In Soil Biology Guide. D.L. Dindal (ed.), Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 667–754Search in Google Scholar

Kimura M. 1980. A simple method for estimating evolutionary rate of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 16, 111–120. DOI: 10.1007/BF01731581Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Mironov S.V., Dabert J., Dabert M. 2012. A new feather mite species of the genus Proctophyllodes Robin, 1877 (Astigmata, Proctophyllodidae) from the long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus (Passeriformes: Aegithalidae) – morphological description with DNA barcode data. Zootaxa, 3253, 54–6110.11646/zootaxa.3253.1.2Search in Google Scholar

Nicholas K.B., Nicholas H.B. Jr. 1997. GeneDoc: a tool for editing and annotating multiple sequence alignments. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing, ver. 2.7.000. http://www.nrbsc.org/downloads (accessed 2 March 2007)Search in Google Scholar

Skoracki M. 2011. Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) of the Palaearctic region. Zootaxa, 2840, 1–41410.11646/zootaxa.2840.1.1Search in Google Scholar

Skoracki M., Dabert J. 2002. A review of parasitic mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari, Prostigmata) from African birds, with descriptions of four new species. Acta Parasitologica, 47, 137–146Search in Google Scholar

Skoracki M., Klimovicova M., Muchai M., Hromada M. 2014. New taxa of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from African barbets and woodpeckers (Piciformes: Lybiidae, Picidae). Zootaxa, 3768, 178–188. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.2.5Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Tamura K., Dudley J., Nei M., Kumar S. 2007. MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24, 1596–1599. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm092Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Received: 2016-2-11

Revised: 2016-3-23

Accepted: 2016-3-29

Published Online: 2016-7-21

Published in Print: 2016-9-1

You are currently not able to access this content.

Articles in the same Issue

https://doi.org/10.1515/ap-2016-0075

Keywords for this article

Quill mites; ectoparasites; Ploceus; systematics; DNA barcodes