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Issue: Vol. 2868 No. 1: 5 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2868.1.2
Page range: 51–61
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Chewing lice of the genus Philopterus (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from drongos (Passeriformes: Dicruridae)

Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho 1–3, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republic
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Department of Zoology, Government Raza Postgraduate College, Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), 244901, India
Department of Zoology, Government Raza Postgraduate College, Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), 244901, India
Department of Zoology, Government Raza Postgraduate College, Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), 244901, India
“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Şos. Kiseleff no. 1, 011341 Bucharest 1, Romania
Phthiraptera lice Philopterus Dicruridae drongos redescriptions new species lectotype India Thailand Taiwan Indonesia

Abstract

The chewing lice of the genus Philopterus parasitic on drongos (Dicruridae) are reviewed. Both sexes of the two species previously known from dicrurid hosts—P. trabecula (Piaget, 1880) and P. kalkalichi Ansari, 1955—are redescribed and illustrated. A new species, Philopterus petrescuae Adam is described from Dicrurus hottentottus from Indonesia. A lectotype for P. trabecula is designated. A record of Philopterus crassipes (Burmeister, 1838) from Dicrurus remifer (Temminck) is discussed and considered to be the result of straggling or contamination.

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