Megasyringophilus Fain, Bochkov and Mironov 2000

Genus Megasyringophilus Fain, Bochkov and Mironov, 2000 Megasyringophilus Fain et al., 2000: 35. Type-species: Megasyringophilus kethleyi Fain, Bochkov and Mironov, 2000, by original designation. Representatives of this genus are associated with birds of the orders Psittaciformes, Accipitriformes, and Strigiformes (Fain et al. 2000; Skoracki et al. 2010, 2016; Zmudzinski et al. 2015). The genus Megasyringophilus currently includes eleven species; nine of them have been recorded from parrots, but the only one has been found on a cacatuid host.
Published as part of Marciniak, Natalia, Skoracki, Maciej & Hromada, Martin, 2019, Quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata) associated with Cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae), pp. 190-200 in Zootaxa 4565 (2) on page 191, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2589860
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