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Issue: Vol. 1206 No. 1: 18 May. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-05-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1206.1.3
Page range: 47–61
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Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from typical antbirds and ground ant-birds (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae, Formicariidae) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of three new species of the genera Formicaphagus and Myrsidea

Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackého 1–3, 612 42 Brno
Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackého 1–3, 612 42 Brno
Department of Avian Ecology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kvìtná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic
Veterinary Teaching Hospital, School of Veterinary Science and Animal Production, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Phthiraptera Chewing lice Formicaphagus Machaerilaemus Myrsidea Passeriformes Thamnophilidae Formicariidae Costa Rica

Abstract

Descriptions and illustrations are given for one new species of Formicaphagus Carriker, 1957 and two new species of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 from typical antbirds and ground antbirds from Costa Rica. They and their type hosts are: Formicaphagus tyrannina ex Cercomacra tyrannina (Thamnophilidae), Myrsidea mcleannani ex Phaenostictus mcleannani (Thamnophilidae) and Myrsidea klimesi ex Formicarius analis (Formicariidae). These are the first records of Myrsidea from members of the passerine families Thamnophilidae and Formicariidae. Records of two other known louse species, one of Formicaphagus and one of Machaerilaemus Harrison, 1915, both from thamnophilid hosts, are also discussed.

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