Taxonavigation

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

Name

Boydaia zosteropis Fain, 1963

• Type locality: nasal cavity of Zosterops virens scotti (Gmélin) (Aves, Zosteropidae), from the Rugege forest (Rwanda)
• Holotype: MRAC slide no. 122268 — ♀

Notes

• A list of hosts is given by Fain (1971).
• Holotype examined and species redescribed by Skoracki et al. (2018: 426).

References

• Fain, A. 1963. Chaetotaxie et classification des Speleognathinae. Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 39(9): 1–80.
• 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.