Boydaia spatulata Fain 1956
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
Boydaia
Boydaia spatulata

description: Boydaia spatulata Fain, 1956
Boydaia sturni var. spatulata Fain, 1955b: 695. Holotype in RMCA, examined.
Boydaia spatulata Fain, 1956a: 47, 49, 50, fig. 28; 1956b: 650, 651, figs. 4–6, 1956c: 33, 1958a: 10, fig. 18; Domrow 1969: 381, figs. 223–226; Pence 1973b: 879, 1973c: 887; Zabludovskaya 2002: 93.
Boydaia (Boydaia) spatulata, Fain 1960a: 114, 1963d: 56, 67, fig. 15, 1971: 100, 108, figs. 1, 18.
Type host: Cercotrichas hartlaubi (Reichenow) (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae) from Rwanda.
Diagnosis. Hypostome with 2 pairs of setae. Setae ve present. Setae vi situated posterior to level of setae si. Sensillae SEa-type. Agenital and pseudanal series with 2 pairs of setae, each. Number of leg setae: coxae 2–1–1–0, trochanters 1–1–0–0, femora 7–4–3–3, genua 4–4–3–3, tibiae 5–3–3–3. All setae on genu and tibia of leg I similar in shape. Claws without basal angles. In larvae, antaxial and paraxial claw pair of leg I unequal, antaxial sharpended, paraxial blunt-ended.
Hosts and distribution. Passeriformes (Acrocephalidae): Iduna similis Richmond from Rwanda [Akanyaru/ Butare region] (Fain 1956a).
Cisticolidae: SchistOlais leucOpOgOn reichenOwi (Hartlaub) from Rwanda [Akanyaru/Butare region] (Fain 1956a).
Motacillidae: MacrOnyx crOceus (Vieillot) from Rwanda [Akanyaru/Butare region] (Fain 1956a).
Muscicapidae: CercOtrichas hartlaubi (Reichenow), POgOnOcichla stellata ruwenzOrii (Ogilvie-Grant), Sheppardia pOliOptera Reichenow, all from Rwanda [Akanyaru/Butare region] (Fain 1956a, b), and CercOmela tractrac (Wilkes) from Botswana [Southern Prov., Kokong] (Fain 1960a).
Paridae: Melaniparus leucOmelas insignis Cabanis (org. Parus niger insignis) from Rwanda [Akanyaru/Butare region] (Fain 1956a).
Pycnonotidae: PycnOnOtus barbatus (Desfontaines) from Guinea (Zabludovskaya 2002).
Non-African hosts and distribution. Passeriformes (Meliphagidae): CissOmela pectOralis (Gould), PhilemOn citreOgularis (Gould), and P. cOrniculatus (Latham) all from Australia (Domrow 1969).
Thraupidae: Tiaris canOrus (Gmelin) (= PhOnipara canOra) and Tangara sp. from captivity in Belgium (Fain 1958a).
Turdidae: Sialia sialis (Linnaeus) from USA (Pence 1973).
Remarks. Fain (1971) reported this species from COssypha natalensis Smith, although labels on the original slides and data from the previous paper (Fain 1963) indicates that the host was Shepardia (= COssypha) pOliOptera.
In the paper of Fain (1956a: 49–50, 1956b: 653) BOydaia spatulata was also reported by misidentification from the following avian species: AgricOla pallidus griseus (Reichenow) (Muscicapidae) (currently a host of BOydaia bradOrnis Fain, 1956), MOnticOla angOlensis (de Sousa) and SaxicOla tOrquatus axillaris (Shelley) (Muscicapidae) (currently the hosts of BOydaia saxicOlae Fain, 1969); SchOenicOla brevirOstris alexinae (Heuglin) (Locustellidae) (currently a host of BOydaia zumpti Fain, 1956), ChalcOmitra senegalensis lamperti (Reichenow) and CyanOmitra verticalis viridisplendens (Reichenow) (Nectariniidae) (currently the hosts of BOydaia nectarinia Fain, 1958).
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 page 426, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1212849