Harpypalpus longipes Fritsch 1954

Harpypalpus longipes (Fritsch, 1954)

(Figs. 3, 4)

Harpyrhynchus longipes Fritsch, 1954: 183, figs. 4 (Myobiidae)

Harpypalpus longipes, Dubinin 1957: 100 (Harpirhynchidae); Moss 1979: 382; Fain et al. 1999: 46; Skoracki et al. 2004: 86, figs. 4–6 (misspelled as longipis), 2012: i13; Bochkov & Literak 2006: 141.

Type material. Male holotype (OSAL 0082533) from Troglodytes troglodytes (Linnaeus) (Troglodytidae), GERMANY: Bavaria, Middle Franconia, Kreisfreie Stadt Erlangen, near Erlangen, 49°35'27''N 11°0'28''E, coll. Fritsch.

Holotype deposition. Male holotype is temporarily deposited in OSAL (examined) as the place of Fritsch’s collection deposition could not be ascertained.

Non-type material. Two males (OSAL 0082566, 0082567) from Periparus ater (Linnaeus) (Paridae) [new host], THE NETHERLANDS: Gelderland, Nijmegen, 51.8333°N 5.8667°E (GEOnet), 20 November 1981, coll.

unknown; 2 females and 8 males (OSAL 0069456, 0069457, 0082549–0082556) from Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus) (Paridae), THE NETHERLANDS: Gelderland, Nijmegen, 51.8333°N 5.8667°E (GEOnet), 20 May 1982, coll. F.S. Lukoschus; 1 female (OSAL 0069458) from same host and locality, 13 February 1969, coll. F.S. Lukoschus; 2 males (OSAL 0082557, 0082558) from same host and locality, 25 March 1969, coll. F. S. Lukoschus; 7 males (OSAL 0082568–0082570) from Parus major Linnaeus (Paridae), THE NETHERLANDS: Gelderland, Nijmegen, 51.8333°N 5.8667°E (GEOnet), 13 February 1969, coll. F. S. Lukoschus; 1 male (OSAL 0082576) from same host and locality, 25 March 1969, coll. F.S. Lukoschus; 3 males (OSAL 0082903–0082905) from same host and locality, 11 March 1971, coll. F.S. Lukoschus; 1 female (OSAL 0069459) from Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus) (Paridae) [new host], USA: Minnesota, Ramsey Co., Shoreview, 45.08°N 93.15°W (USGS – GNIS), 17 April 1981, coll. M. Huybenez; 2 females and 4 males (OSAL 0082542, 0082543, 0082547, 0082577–0082579) from Spinus spinus (Linnaeus) (Fringillidae), THE NETHERLANDS: Gelderland, Nijmegen, 51.8333°N 5.8667°E (GEOnet), 13 February 1969, coll. F. S. Lukoschus; 1 female (OSAL 0082546) from same host and locality, 15 May 1969, coll. F.S. Lukoschus; 4 females and 2 males (OSAL 0082530, 0082534, 0082538–0082541) from Carduelis cannabina (Linnaeus) (Fringillidae) [new host], THE NETHERLANDS: Noord-Brabant, Oss, 51.76°N 5.51°E (GEOnet), 27 June 1977, coll. R. I. N.

Remarks. This species was described based on a male from Troglodytes troglodytes (Linnaeus) (Troglodytidae) in Germany (Fritsch 1954). Later on it was recorded from various passeriform birds from the Palearctic region (mainly in the Netherlands), i.e. Nucifraga caryocatactes (Linnaeus) (Corvidae), Parus major Linnaeus, Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus) (Paridae), Spinus spinus (Linnaeus), Serinus mozambicus (Muller), and Pyrrhula pyrrhula (Linnaeus) (Fringillidae) (Moss 1979). The records from Serinus mozambicus and Pyrrhula pyrrhula belong to Harpypalpus serini Fain, 1972 and Harpypalpus pyrrhula sp. nov., respectively. Later on, it was redescribed from both sexes from Parus major in Poland (Skoracki et al. 2004). Specimens from Poecile atricapillus differ from mites from other hosts (Table 1) by the presence of microscales on striae covering dorsal idiosomal cuticle. Females from finches, Carduelis cannabina (Linnaeus) and Spinus spinus (Linnaeus), differ from females from other hosts by the greater distance between the transverse levels of setae h1–h1 and h2–h2, 18–25 (vs. about 10 in specimens from tits).