New records of feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) from Brazil, with description of a new species from the Black Vulture (Aves: Cathartidae).

Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata: Analgoidea and Pterolichoidea) live in the plumage and on the skin of birds. Because of the huge diversity of birds in Brazil, several groups still remain almost unexplored concerning their feather mites. In this paper we describe a new feather mite species,Cathartacarus coragypssp. n. (Gabuciniidae), from the Black Vulture,Coragyps atratus(Bechstein) (Cathartiformes, Cathartidae), and report seven species new for Brazil from birds of the orders Charadriiformes and Cariamiformes:Brephosceles chilensisPeterson, 1971 (Alloptidae),Bychovskiata chilensisMironov and Dabert, 1995 (Avenzoariidae),Magimelia chilensisDabert et al., 2002 (Pterolichidae),Sokoloviana chilensisDabert and Ehrnsberger, 1996 (Ptiloxenidae), andLeptosphyra centropoda(Mégnin, 1877) (Xolalgidae) from the Southern Lapwing,Vanellus chilensis(Molina), andGabuciniella camptolobaGaud and Atyeo, 1996 from the Red-legged Seriema,Cariama cristata(Linnaeus). http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1F953DFC-7F7E-4A18-A882-0891557F50F6 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]