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Issue: Vol. 1631 No. 1: 5 Nov. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1631.1.4
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 17

Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from buntings, cardinals and tanagers (Passeriformes: Emberizidae, Cardinalidae, Thraupidae) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of two new species of the genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae)

Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, PalackJho 1–3, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republic
Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, PalackJho 1–3, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republicv
Department of Avian Ecology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kv.tn< 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 Myrsidea Menacanthus Machaerilaemus Ricinus new host-louse associations

Abstract

Descriptions and illustrations are given for two new species of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 from cardinals and tanagers from Costa Rica. They and their type hosts are: Myrsidea poliogasteri ex Caryothraustes poliogaster (Cardinalidae) and M. larvatae ex Tangara larvata (Thraupidae). The male of Myrsidea mitrospingi is also described. New host records are Sporophila corvina for Ricinus diffusus; Mitrospingus cassinii for Menacanthus eurysternus; Tachyphonus luctuosus for Myrsidea spizae; Euphonia gouldi for Myrsidea violaceae; and Tachyphonus delattrii for Machaerilaemus laticorpus. Records of two other louse species of the genus Myrsidea from tanagers are also discussed. This paper includes the first record of Myrsidea from members of the passerine family Cardinalidae, and a number of additional new host-louse associations.

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