Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the blue-throated blue flycatcher, Cyornis rubeculoides (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae).

The paper describes two new species of feather mites collected from the blue-throated blue flycatcherCyornis rubeculoides(Vigors) (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae) in India (Meghalaya):Trouessartia kharkhanensisConstantinescu et al. sp. nov. (Trouessartiidae) andProterothrix cyornissimilisConstantinescu et al. sp. nov. (Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae). Both sexes ofT. kharkhanensisdiffer from the closest species,T. rubeculaJablonska, 1968 by having setaesiandc2lanceolate and setaec3andsRIII with acute apex. In males of the new species, the adanal apodemes have a hook-like retroverse apophysis and the internal margins of terminal lamellae have a shallow invagination at the level of setaeh3. Both sexes ofP. cyornissimilisdiffer from the closest species,P. cyornisMironov and Tolstenkov, 2013, mainly by the ornamentation of the dorsal shields: it is absent on the prodorsal shield and poorly expressed on the hysteronothal shield. In males of the new species, the supranal concavity is triangular and the genital arch has a pair of small ovoid sclerites at its tips. http:/zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1671D6D4-8895-467B-A124-05EDBB0DF406 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]