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Syringophilidae

Family of mites

Summary

Family of mites

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Syringophilidae is a family of mites, commonly known as quill mites. They are obligatory ectoparasites of birds, and inhabit their feather quills where they feed on subcutaneous tissue and fluids. Typically the Syringophilinae inhabit all but the body feathers (primaries, secondaries, tertials, rectrices and wing coverts), while the Picobinae specialize in infecting the body feathers internally. Quill mites have been recorded from hundreds of bird species, belonging to 95 families and 24 orders. Much knowledge of their hosts, diversity and systematics has been obtained since the late 1990s, but as of 2020 these were still considered to be poorly known.

Life cycle

A single fertilized female enters the soft calamus of a developing feather through the opening called superior umbilicus. When this is getting closed, it produces offspring; a single male and several females, which develop within this enclosed space. The offspring then fertilize each other and produce one more generation still enclosed here. Again, only a single male offspring is produced by each female, which will fertilize their sisters and cousins. Finally, fertilized females disperse to look for new feathers on the same host bird or on another one. The most frequent type of transmission is the parent-offspring route. Due to this peculiar life cycle, quill mite populations are highly inbred and subjected to an extremely reduced (if any) sexual selection pressure.

Symbionts

They may host strains of Wolbachia, an intracellular bacterial genus. Additionally Spiroplasma bacteria are suspected symbionts, besides potentially the pathogens Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Brucella and Bartonella.

Genera

The family contains the following genera:

  • Ascetomylla Kethley, 1970
  • Aulobia Kethley, 1970
  • Aulonastus Kethley, 1970
  • Bubophilus J. R. Philips & R. A. Norton, 1978
  • Calamincola Casto, 1978
  • Castosyringophilus Bochkov & Perez, 2003
  • Charadriphilus Bochkov & Chistyakov, 2001
  • Chenophila Kethley, 1970
  • Colinophilus Kethley, 1973
  • Creagonycha Kethley, 1970
  • Dissonus Skoracki, 1999
  • Ixobrychiphilus Skoracki, Zmudzinski & Solarczyk, 2017
  • Kalamotrypetes S. D. Casto, 1980
  • Kethleyana Kivganov, in Kivganov & Sharafat 1995
  • Megasyringophilus Fain, Bochkov & Mironov, 2000
  • Mironovia Chirov & Kravtsova, 1995
  • Neoaulobia Fain, Bochkov & Mironov, 2000
  • Neoaulonastus Skoracki, 2004
  • Niglarobia Kethley, 1970
  • Peristerophila Kethley, 1970
  • Philoxanthornia Kethley, 1970
  • Picobia Haller, 1878
  • Procellariisyringophilus Schmidt & Skoracki, 2007 (nom. nov. pro Syringonomus Kethley 1970 non Hope & Murphy, 1969)
  • Psittaciphilus Fain, Bochkov & Mironov, 2000
  • Selenonycha Kethley, 1970
  • Stibarokris Kethley, 1970
  • Syringonomus Kethley, 1970
  • Syringophiloidus Kethley, 1970
  • Syringophilopsis Kethley, 1970
  • Syringophilus Heller, 1880
  • Terratosyringophilus Bochkov & Perez, 2003
  • Torotrogla Kethley, 1970
  • Trypetoptila Kethley, 1970

References

References

  1. (9 June 2015). "Checklist of the Quill mites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) of the World". Zootaxa.
  2. (2022). "Relationship between body size and sexual size dimorphism in syringophilid quill mites". Parasitology Research.
  3. (March 2015). "New Wolbachia supergroups detected in quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae)". Infection, Genetics and Evolution.
  4. (May 2020). "Microbial composition of enigmatic bird parasites: Wolbachia and Spiroplasma are the most important bacterial associates of quill mites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae)". MicrobiologyOpen.
  5. Andrey Bochkov. "Syringophilidae". [[Texas A&M University]].
  6. Maciej Skoracki, Martin Hromada & Markus Unsoeld. (2013). "Three new quill mite species of the genus ''Neoaulonastus'' Skoracki (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing passerines in Tanzania". [[Zootaxa]].
  7. (2017). "''Ixobrychiphilus'', a new genus of the family Syringophilidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata)". Acarologia.
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