Abstract
Two new feather mite species of the genus Trouessartia Canestrini are described from laughingthrushes (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae) captured in Meghalaya (India): Trouessartia cyanouropterae sp. n. from Actinodura cyanouroptera (Hodgson) and Trouessartia alcippeae sp. n. from Alcippe nipalensis (Hodgson). It is the first time when species of the genus Trouessartia are described from leiothrichids.
Highlights
The feather mite genus Trouessartia Canestrini, 1899 comprises 110 species associated predominantly with birds from the order Passeriformes
Descriptions of Trouessartia species are given according to the standards proposed for mites of the genus Trouessartia and related genera (Orwig 1968, Santana 1976), and the measuring techniques of particular structures used in the present paper were described by Mironov and González-Acuña (2013)
Prohysteronotal shield length 142 (130–140), width at anterior margin 118 (104–114), lateral margins incised at level of trochanters III, bottom of these incisions with C-shaped dark sclerotisation, dorsal hysterosomal apertures (DHA) absent
Summary
The feather mite genus Trouessartia Canestrini, 1899 comprises 110 species associated predominantly with birds from the order Passeriformes. Hysteronotal shield length from anterior margin to bases of setae h3 228–232, width at anterior margin 112–116, lateral margins deeply incised at level of trochanters III, bottom of these incisions with C-shaped dark sclerotisation, DHA absent, posterior part with small ovate lacunae (Fig. 4).
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