Picobia echo

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cheyletoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Acariformes Ordo: Trombidiformes Subordo: Prostigmata Cohort: Eleutherengona Superfamilia: Cheyletoidea

Familia: Syringophilidae
Subfamilia: Picobiinae
Genus: Picobia
Species: Picobia echo

Name

• Picobia echo Skoracki, Solarczyk & Sikora, 2012

Holotype: ZSM 20112010, ♀, ex. Cossypha heuglini Hartlaub (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae).

Type locality: D. R. Congo, South Kivu Prov., Bukavu, 7 August 1969, coll. P. Kunkel.

Etymology: The name of this species derives from the Greek εχώ (ēchō), “sound”.

References

• Maciej Skoracki; Piotr Solarczyk; Bozena Sikora, 2012: Three new species of picobiine mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitising African flycatchers (Aves: Muscicapidae). Systematic parasitology, 83 (2): 123–135. DOI: 10.1007/s11230-012-9376-5.