Ptilonyssus Berlese and Trouessart 1889

HaarderK, Simon & K, Ivan Dimov, 2024, A new species of Rhinonyssidae (Mesostigmata) nasal mite (Ptilonyssus simplex n. sp.) from the Bohemian waxwing in Denmark., Acarologia 64 (3), pp. 961-967 : 962

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.24349/57ia-6ley
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670127
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385A60B-513C-9D19-4ED8-F5B0215D7DBA
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Ptilonyssus Berlese and Trouessart 1889
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Genus Ptilonyssus Berlese and Trouessart 1889 View in CoL

Ptilonyssus Berlese and Trouessart 1889: 128 View in CoL ; Vitzthum 1935: 578 ; Cooreman 1946: 4; Castro

1948: 260; Pereira and Castro, 1949: 218; Zumpt and Patterson 1951: 77; Strandtmann 1951:

129; Zumpt and Till 1955: 69; Domrow 1969: 333 ; Pence 1975: 11 ; Butenko 1984: 156 ; Knee et al. 2008: 350 ; Dimov 2018: 74.

Type species — Ptilonyssus echinatus Berlese and Trouessart 1889 View in CoL .

Diagnosis — Mites with oblong body, length 380–760. Dorsal side of podosoma only with podosomal shield. Dorsal side of opisthosoma with only one of shields, either opisthosomal or pygidial one. Stigma with oblong peritremes and located dorsolaterally. Mesosomal shield present or absent. Poststigmal shield absent. Gnathosoma located terminally. Deutosternal denticles present or absent. Tritosternum absent. Sternal shield present or absent. Genital and anal shields present. Anus with anal shield located ventrally. Aspero present. Convexitas and spina coxae absent. Female setae are microchetes, male setae needle-shaped.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Mesostigmata
Family	Rhinonyssidae