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JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY
Volume 39, Issue 37, Pages 3297-3304Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00222930500126107
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birds; host-symbiont relationships; mites; morphology
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A new feather mite genus Hexacaudalges gen. n. (Psoroptoididae: Psoroptoidinae) is established based on the type species Megninia casuaricola Proctor, 2001, which was originally described from the southern cassowary Casuarius casuarius (Struthioniformes: Casuariidae). Morphological peculiarities of this genus, its taxonomic position within the family Psoroptoididae and possible origin are discussed. We also present a clarification of setal nomenclature for this family of mites.
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