Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-tdptf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-16T17:24:09.750Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Knemidokoptes pilae Lavoipierre & Griffiths, 1951, found on Palaeornis torquatus and Ara sp., with a special note on the bases of the adscutal setae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. Jansen Jnr
Affiliation:
The Instituut voor Veterinaire Parasitologie en Parasitaire Ziekten of the State University at Utrecht (Netherlands)

Extract

Lavoipierre & Griffiths (1951) described the female, and Lavoipierre (1953) described the male, of Knemidokoptes pilae found on a budgerigar. Later, Oldham & Beresford (1954) and Evans & Browning (1955), respectively, added Psittacula nipalensis and Upupa epops to the host-list of this species. The present author (1956) has also mentioned the occurrence of Knemidokoptes pilae on a budgerigar and a parrakeet, Palaeornis torquatus, and an unknown species of the genus Ara may now be added to the list.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Ehlers, E. (1873). Die Kratzmilben der Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Sarcoptiden. Z. wiss. Zool. 23, 228.Google Scholar
Evans, G. O. & Browning, E. (1955). Econ. Ser. Brit. Mus. no. 17.Google Scholar
Henry, A. C. L. & Leblois, C. P. (1924). Gale céphalique chez un Perroquet. Bull. Soc. cent. de Méd. vet. 100, 87.Google Scholar
Jansen, Jr. J. (1956). Schurft bij twee parkieten. Tijdschr. Diergeneesk. 81, 212.Google Scholar
Lavoipierre, M. & Griffiths, R. B. (1951). A preliminary note on a new species of Knemidokoptes (Acarina) causing scaly leg in a budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) in Great Britain. Ann. trop. Med. Parasit. 45, 253.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lavoipierre, M. (1953). A description of the male of Knemidokoptes pilae Lavoipierre & Griffiths, 1951. Ann. trop. Med. Parasit. 47, 304.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mégnin, P. (1880). Les Parasites et les Maladies parasitaires. Paris.Google Scholar
Oldham, J. N. & Beresfobd, Jones W. P. (1954). Observations on the occurrence of Knemidokoptes pilae in budgerigars and a parrakeet. Brit. Vet. J. 110, 29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Turk, F. A. (1950). A new species of parasitic mite, Knemidokoptes jamaicensis, a causative agent of scaly leg in Turdus aurantiacus. Parasitology, 40, 60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar