Coboydaia clavata
Creators: name: Skoracki, Maciej
name: Schmidt, Karl-Heinz
name: Marciniak, Natalia
name: Marciniak, Martyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Ereynetidae
Coboydaia
Coboydaia clavata

description: Coboydaia clavata (Fain, 1955)
(Fig. 15)
Boydaia clavata Fain, 1955b: 694, 1956a: 44, 45, 50, fig. 29, 1956b: 650, 655, fig. 19–21, 1956c: 32, 1960b: 101, 1963b: 371, 1963d: 59, 67, 77, fig. 24. Holotype in RMCA, examined.
Boydaia (Coboydaia) clavata, Fain 1971: 98, 103, 111, fig. 20, Fain et al. 1977: 393.
Coboydaia (Apodiboydaia) clavata, Zabludovskaya 2002: 93.
Type host: Ploceus cucullatus graueri Hartert (Passeriformes: Ploceidae) from Rwanda.
Diagnosis. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Setae ve absent. Setae vi situated posterior to level of setae si. Sensillae SEc-type. Agenital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–1, trochanters 0–0–0–0, femora 6–4–3–1, genua 4–4–3–2, tibiae 5–3–3–3. In larvae, antaxial and paraxial claws of leg I short, subequal, and sharp-ended.
Hosts and distribution. Passeriformes (Ploceidae): Euplectes hOrdeaceus (Linnaeus), E. ardens (Boddaert) and E. macrOura (Gmelin) all from Cameroon [Galim] (Fain et al. 1977), PlOceus baglafecht stuhlmanni (Reichenow) from Rwanda [Southern Prov., Butare] (Fain 1956a), P. cucullatus (St. Mueller) from Cameroon [Galim] (Fain et al. 1977), Guinea [Kilisi] (Zabludovskaya 2002), Ghana and Rwanda [Northern Prov., Gakoma] (present study), P. cucullatus graueri Hartert, P. pelzelni (Hartlaub), and P. xanthOps (Hartlaub) (= P. x. camburni) all from Rwanda (Fain 1963), P. velatus Vieillot from Zimbabwe [Kariba] (present study), P. vitellinus (Lichtenstein) from Cameroon [Yagoua], Quelea erythrOps (Hartlaub) from Guinea [Kilisi] (Zabludovskaya 2002), Q. quelea (Linnaeus) from South Africa (Fain 1956a), Zambia [Lochinvar National Park] (Fain 1960b), Cameroon [Waza] (Fain et al. 1977), Burundi [Kinyinya] and Zimbabwe [Kariba] (present study), Q. q. aethiOpica (Sundevall) (= Q. q. centralis) from Rwanda (Fain 1956b).
Turdidae: SaxicOla rubetra (Linnaeus) from Guinea [Kilisi] (Zabludovskaya 2002).
Viduidae: Vidua chalybeata (St. Mueller) from Senegal and V. chalybeata amaurOpteryx (Sharpe) from South Africa (Fain 1963d).
Columbiformes (Columbidae): StreptOpelia vinacea (Gmelin) from Guinea [Kilisi] (Zabludovskaya 2002).
New material examined. Five females from PlOceus cucullatus (St. Mueller) (Passeriformes: Ploceidae), RWANDA: Northern Prov., Gakoma, December 1954, coll. A. Fain; 2 females from same host species, GHANA: May 1973, coll. Sixl-Voight; 1 female from PlOceus velatus Vieillot (Ploceidae), ZIMBABWE: Kariba S.R., 16 February 1964, coll. unknown; 3 females from Quelea quelea (Linnaeus) (Ploceidae), BURUNDI: Kinyinya, 18 May 1955, coll. unknown; 1 female, 1 male and 1 larva from same host species, ZIMBABWE: Kariba S.R., 15 February 1964, coll. unknown. All specimens deposited in the RBINS.
description: Published as part of Skoracki, Maciej, Schmidt, Karl-Heinz, Marciniak, Natalia & Marciniak, Martyna, 2018, A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region, pp. 401-440 in Zootaxa 4403 (3) on pages 428-430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1212849