Taxonavigation

Familia: Ereynetidae
Subfamilia: Speleognathinae
Tribus: Boydaiini
Genus: Boydaia
Species: B. indica

Name

Boydaia indica Fain, 1969

• Type locality: nasal cavity of Acridotheres tristis (Aves, Sturnidae), from India but birds dead in the zoological garden of Antwerpen (Belgium)
• Holotype: IRSNB — larva

Notes

• A list of hosts is given by Fain (1971).
• Holotype examined and species redescribed by Skoracki et al. (2018: 424).

References

• Fain, A. 1969. Nouveaux Speleognathinae parasites nasicoles d'oiseaux (Acarina : Trombidiformes). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 80(3-4): 369–376.
• Fain, A. 1971. Clé et liste des espèces du genre Boydaia Womersley (Ereynetidae: Trombidiformes). Acarologia 13(1): 98–112.

• Skoracki, M., Schmidt, K-H., Marciniak, N. & Marciniak, M. 2018. A review of mites of the subfamily Speleognathinae (Acariformes: Ereynetidae) parasitizing respiratory tracts of birds in the Afrotropical region. Zootaxa 4403(3): 401–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.1 Reference page.