Pneumocoptes Baker 1951

Genus Pneumocoptes Baker, 1951 Baker 1951: 584; Doby 1963: 963; Doby et al. 1964: 202; Loos-Frank & Abel 1983: 539; Kouchakij & Loos-Frank 1984: 673. Type species: Cytoleichus penrosei Weidman, 1917, by original designation. Diagnosis. With characteristics of family. Species included: P. jellisoni, P. penrosei, P. tiollaisi, P. banksi (?). Host range and distribution. Species of this genus parasitize the lungs of rodents in Europe and North America (see Table 6).
Published as part of Bochkov, Andre V., Zabludovskaya, Svetlana & Oconnor, Barry M., 2008, Phylogeny and systematics of the endoparasitic astigmatid mites (Acari: Sarcoptiformes) of mammals: families Gastronyssidae, Lemurnyssidae, and Pneumocoptidae, pp. 1-152 in Zootaxa 1951 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1951.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5240616
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