Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from wild passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in northern Vietnam, with descriptions of three new species
Author
Najer, Tomas
Author
Sychra, Oldrich
Author
Hung, Nguyen Manh
Author
Capek, Miroslav
Author
Podzemny, Petr
Author
Literak, Ivan
text
Zootaxa
2012
3530
59
73
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.215422
fa0e157d-9216-4342-a648-fbeddbe677a5
1175-5326
215422
Menacanthus nogoma
Uchida, 1926
Type
host:
Calliope calliope
(Pallas, 1776)
Material studied.
3 males
,
1 female
,
VIETNAM
: the botanical garden, Cuc Phuong, Province of Ninh Binh (
20°15' N
105°42' E
),
7 February 2010
, coll. I. Literak, in
IEBR VAST
(O. Sychra
V32
);
1 male
,
1 female
with the same data as the previous sample but in
MMBC
(O. Sychra
V33
).
Remarks
. This is the new host-louse associations for
Menacanthus nogoma
that was previously known from 7 species of birds from the families
Muscicapidae
and
Motacillidae
, including 5 species of the genus
Luscinia
(
Price
et al.
2003
)
, now placed into the genera
Calliope
,
Larvivora
, and
Tarsiger
(
Clements
et al.
2011
)
. Two of 21 birds examined were parasitized by
Menacanthus nogoma
.