Two new feather mite species of the family Pteronyssidae (Acarina: Analgoidea) from Meghalaya (Northeast India)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Constantinescu, Ioana Cristina, Chişamera, Gabriel, Mukhim, Khlur B., Adam, Costică (2014): Two new feather mite species of the family Pteronyssidae (Acarina: Analgoidea) from Meghalaya (Northeast India). Zootaxa 3774 (4): 351-366, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.4.4 Abstract Two new species of the feather mite family Pteronyssidae (Acariformes: Analgoidea) from passerines of the families Leiothrichidae and Pycnonotidae in India (Meghalaya, East Jaintia Hills District) are described: Timalinyssus actinodurae Constantinescu sp. nov. from Actinodura cyanouroptera (Hodgson) (Leiothrichidae) and Pteroherpus meghalayensis Constantinescu sp. nov. from Hemixos flavala Blyth (Pycnonotidae). Timalinyssus actinodurae differs from all of the oth- er species of the genus due to a particular shape of the opisthosomal lobes in both sexes and having a strong sclerotised band in postero-median area of the hysteronotal shield in male. The male of Pteroherpus meghalayensis differs due to a very long genital apparatus and unusual length of the tips of epiandrum that extend the level of the genital apparatus. Key words: Acari, Analgoidea, Timalinyssus actinodurae, Pteroherpus meghalayensis, systematics