New species and additional data on the chewing louse genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from wild Neotropical Passeriformes (Aves)
Author
Kolencik, Stanislav
Author
Sychra, Oldrich
Author
Papousek, Ivo
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Kuabara, Kamila M. D.
Author
Valim, Michel P.
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Literak, Ivan
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Zootaxa
2018
4418
5
401
431
journal article
30109
10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.1
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1175-5326
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Myrsidea
sp.
We collected a few specimens of
Myrsidea
from five other species of
Tyrannidae
, as follows:
Contopus virens
(Linnaeus, 1766)
,
Elaenia frantzii
Lawrence, 1865
,
Ramphotrigon megacephalum
(Swainson, 1835)
,
Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
(Cabanis, 1847)
, and
Zimmerius vilissimus
(P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1859)
(see Table 3). They represent first records of
Myrsidea
from
C. virens
, and of any louse from the other four hosts. Unfortunately, with one exception, they were all nymphs, from which we were unsuccessful in obtaining genetic data or meaningful morphological data for their identification. The exception was one female from
Ramphotrigon megacephalum
which, unfortunately, was destroyed during DNA extraction.