| mites of the genus torotrogla (prostigmata: syringophilidae) from north american passerines. | five new quill mite species of the genus torotrogla kethley, 1970 (acari: syringophilidae) are described from north american passerines: t. aphelocoma sp.n. from aphelocoma californica (corvidae) and t. cardinalis sp.n. from cardinalis cardinalis (cardinalidae) in texas; and t. coccothraustes sp.n. from coccothraustes vespertinus (fringillidae), t. cyanocitta sp.n. from cyanocitta stelleri (corvidae), and t. piranga sp.n. from piranga ludoviciana (thraupidae) in california. a key to females of a ... | 2009 | 19351069 |
| four new species of aulonastus kethley, 1970 (acari: syringophilidae) from north american passerines. | four new species belonging to aulonastus kethley, 1970 (acari: prostigmata: syringophilidae), which are found inside the quills of body feathers of north american passerines (aves: passeriformes), are described and figured: a. emberizicus n. sp. from ammodramus savanarum (gmelin) (emberizidae) (type-host) in texas, zonotrichia atricapilla (gmelin) (emberizidae) in california and passerculus sandwichensis (gmelin) (emberizidae) in texas; a. euphagus n. sp. from euphagus cyanocephalus (wagler) (ic ... | 2010 | 20437219 |
| a phylogenetic analysis of the emberizid sparrows based on three mitochondrial genes. | previous molecular phylogenetic studies have examined the taxonomic relationships among a number of typical emberizid sparrow genera. to help clarify these relationships, we sequenced a 1673 base pair fragment for the complete sequence of three mitochondrial genes: adenosine triphosphatase (atp8 and atp6) and cytochrome oxidase subunit iii (coiii) for 38 sparrow species, along with passerina amoena (cardinalidae) and piranga ludoviciana (thraupidae) which were selected as the outgroups. our anal ... | 2003 | 12967606 |
| brueelia (phthiraptera: ischnocera: philopteridae) of north american nine-primaried oscines (aves: passeriformes: passerida) with descriptions of nine new species. | nine new species of chewing lice in the genus brueelia kéler, 1936 , are described from north american hosts. they are brueelia thorini n. sp. from haemorhous mexicanus frontalis (say, 1822) and haemorhous mexicanus potosinus griscom, 1928; brueelia straseviciusi n. sp. from haemorhous purpureus (gmelin, 1789); brueelia mattsonae n. sp. from coccothraustes vespertinus brooksi (grinnell, 1917); brueelia novemstriata n. sp. from icterus wagleri wagleri sclater, 1857, and i. parisorum bonaparte, 18 ... | 2019 | 31730417 |