@article {94288, title = {A new species of the genus Amyrsidea (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae) parasitizing domestic chickens in Saudi Arabia}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4238}, year = {2017}, month = {Feb-03-2017}, pages = {253-257}, abstract = {

Amyrsidea Ewing, 1927 is a genus of chewing lice comprising 52 species, divided into five subgenera: Amyrsidea sensu stricto, Argimenopon Eichler, 1947, Cracimenopon Carriker, 1954, Desumenopon Carriker, 1954 and Numidimenopon Scharf \& Price, 1977 (see Price et al. 2003: 86), which parasitise a wide range of hosts belonging to the avian order Galliformes (see Price et al. 2003: 321). Species of Amyrsidea can be distinguished from species of Menacanthus Neumann, 1912-the other menoponid genus with species parasitic on the same hosts-by lacking ventral spinous processes in the head (Scharf \& Price 1977: 815). Revisions of all subgenera and species of Amyrsidea, including keys for their identification, were published by Scharf \& Price (1977, 1983) and Scharf \& Emerson (1983, 1984).

}, issn = {1175-5326 (Print), 1175-5334 (online)}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4238.210.11646/zootaxa.4238.2.5}, url = {http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4238.2}, author = {Azzam Alahmed and Y. N. Aldryhim and Mohammed Shobrak and Mohamed Gamal El-D Nasser} }