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Issue: Vol. 1153 No. 1: 17 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1153.1.3
Page range: 27–32
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from the blue-black grassquit (Aves: Passeriformes: Emberizidae) in Brazil

Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Cep. 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand
Phthiraptera chewing lice Brueelia Philopteridae Passeriformes Volatinia blue-black grassquit new species

Abstract

A new species of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 is described and illustrated, based on lice collected from the blue-black grassquit, Volatinia jacarina (Linnaeus, 1766), in Brazil. This is the first species of Philopteridae recorded from this Neotropical passeriform species.

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