@article {96552, title = {Chewing lice of Bearded Reedling (Panurus biarmicus) and diversity of louse-host associations of birds in reed beds in Slovakia}, journal = {Parasite}, volume = {31}, year = {2024}, month = {Feb-2024}, pages = {15}, abstract = {

A total of 1,621 wild birds representing 34 species were examined for chewing lice in reed beds in southwestern Slovakia during the pre-breeding migration 2008\–2009 and 2016\–2019. A total of 377 (23.3\%) birds representing 15 species were parasitized by 26 species of chewing lice of 12 genera. Dominant genera were Penenirmus (with dominance 32.6\%) and Menacanthus (29.4\%), followed by Brueelia (12.6\%), Acronirmus (10.8\%), Philopterus (7.7\%), and Myrsidea (4.2\%). We evaluated 33 host-louse associations including both 1) host-generalist, parasitizing more than one host species and host-specific lice, occurring only on a single host species, and 2) lice species with large range geographic distribution, reported across the range of the distribution of their hosts and lice species with only occasional records from a limited area within the range of their hosts. The Bearded Reedling, Panurus biarmicus (Linnaeus, 1758), was parasitized by two species of chewing lice, Menacanthus brelihi Bal\át, 1981 and Penenirmus visendus (Z{\l}otorzycka, 1964), with conspicuously different prevalences (5.6\% vs. 58.2\%, respectively; n\ =\ 251). New material enabled us to redescribe both species of lice: the first one is resurrected from previous synonymy as a valid species. A fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene was sequenced from these two species in order to assess their relative phylogenetic position within their genera. Our study demonstrates the importance of an adequate identification of parasites, especially on rarely examined and endangered hosts.

R\ésum\é

Au total, 1 621 oiseaux sauvages repr\ésentant 34 esp\èces ont \ét\é examin\és \à la recherche de mallophages dans les roseli\ères du sud-ouest de la Slovaquie au cours de la migration de pr\é-reproduction 2008\–2009 et 2016\–2019. Parmi ceux-ci, 377 oiseaux (23,3\ \%), repr\ésentant 15 esp\èces, \étaient parasit\és par 26 esp\èces de mallophages de 12 genres. Les genres dominants \étaient Penenirmus (avec une dominance de 32,6\ \%) et Menacanthus (29,4\ \%), suivis de Brueelia (12,6\ \%), Acronirmus (10,8\ \%), Philopterus (7,7\ \%) et Myrsidea (4,2\ \%). Nous avons \évalu\é 33 associations mallophage-h\ôte comprenant \à la fois 1) des esp\èces de mallophages g\én\éralistes, parasitant plus d\’une esp\èce h\ôte, et des mallophages sp\écifiques, pr\ésents uniquement sur une seule esp\èce h\ôte et 2) des esp\èces de mallophages ayant une large r\épartition g\éographique, signal\ées \à travers l\’\étendue de la r\épartition de leurs h\ôtes, et des esp\èces de mallophages avec seulement des observations occasionnelles dans une zone limit\ée \à l\’int\érieur de l\’aire de r\épartition de leurs h\ôtes. La Panure \à moustaches, Panurus biarmicus (Linnaeus, 1758), \était parasit\ée par deux esp\èces de mallophages, Menacanthus brelihi Bal\át, 1981 et Penenirmus visendus (Z{\l}otorzycka, 1964), avec des pr\évalences nettement diff\érentes (respectivement\ 5,6\ \% et 58,2\ \%, n\ =\ 251). Du nouveau mat\ériel nous a permis de red\écrire les deux esp\èces de mallophages, la premi\ère \étant ressuscit\ée de la synonymie pr\éc\édente en tant qu\’esp\èce valide. Un fragment du g\ène mitochondrial de la cytochrome oxydase I a \ét\é s\équenc\é \à partir de ces deux esp\èces afin d\’\évaluer leur position phylog\én\étique relative au sein de leurs genres. Notre \étude d\émontre l\’importance d\’une identification ad\équate des parasites, en particulier sur les h\ôtes rarement examin\és et menac\és.

}, keywords = {Acronirmus gracilis, intensity, Prevalence, redescription, Rostrinirmus ruficeps}, issn = {1776-1042}, doi = {10.1051/parasite/2024006}, url = {https://www.parasite-journal.org/articles/parasite/full_html/2024/01/parasite230144/parasite230144.html}, author = {Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Lucie Su{\v s}ilov{\'a} and Tomas Najer and Ivan Liter{\'a}k and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Jana Martin{\r u} and Trnka,Alfr{\'e}d and M. {\v C}apek} } @article {95994, title = {Chewing lice of passerine birds in reed beds in Slovakia, with a special focus on Panurus biarmicus}, journal = {Medical and Veterinary Entomology}, volume = {37}, year = {2022}, month = {June 2023}, pages = {300-307}, abstract = {

A total of 1185 passerine birds representing five species were examined for chewing lice in reed beds in southwestern Slovakia in spring (April) 2008, 2009 and 2016. Additional collecting focused only on chewing lice from Panurus biarmicus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Passeriformes: Panuridae) was carried out in spring (April), summer (July) and autumn (October) 2019. A total of 283 (24\%) birds were parasitized by 10 species of chewing lice of four genera: Penenirmus, Menacanthus, Philopterus, and Brueelia. Most birds showed only very light (1\–10 lice/host; 74\%) to light infestations (11\–20 lice/host; 16\%). The authors found significantly higher prevalences and mean abundances of chewing lice on residents/short-distance migrants, that is, P. biarmicus, Acrocephalus melanopogon (Temminck, 1823) (Passeriformes: Acrocephalidae), than on long-distance migratory birds, that is, Acrocephalus scirpaceus (Hermann, 1804), Acrocephalus schoenobaenus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Passeriformes: Acrocephalidae), Locustella luscinioides (Savi, 1824) (Passeriformes: Locustellidae). No significant difference was found in the total mean intensity of chewing lice between these two groups of birds. Ischnoceran lice were more prevalent and abundant than amblyceran lice on residents and short-distance migrants, whereas the opposite was found on bird species that migrate long distances. A total of 146 (58\%, n\ =\ 251) P. biarmicus were parasitized by 1490 chewing lice. Males of P. biarmicus showed higher prevalence and mean abundance than females with gradually descending values of prevalence, mean abundance and mean intensity from spring to autumn. The knowledge of the occurrence and population dynamics of lice on wild passerine birds can be useful in endangered species conservation programs and can also be applied to captive passerine birds, which may be analogous to resident birds in this sense.

Attached file 95994.pdf online version

}, keywords = {Acrocephalus melanopogon, ectoparasites, Migration, Sexual dimorphism}, issn = {0269-283X, 1365-2915}, doi = {10.1111/mve.12631}, url = {https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mve.12631}, author = {Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Lucie Oslejskova and {\v Z}aneta Skoup{\'a} and Tomas Najer and Ivan Liter{\'a}k and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Trnka,Alfr{\'e}d and M. {\v C}apek} } @article {95411, title = {Myrsidea quadrifasciata (Phthiraptera: Amblycera) {\textendash} a unique host generalist among highly host-specific chewing lice}, journal = {Arthropod Systematics \& Phylogeny}, volume = {79}, year = {2021}, month = {Aug-2021}, pages = {379-400}, abstract = {

Abstract Ten species of the louse genus Myrsidea belonging to the \“serini-species-group\” have been reviewed. A redescription of Myrsidea quadrifasciata (Piaget, 1880), the earliest described and valid species of this species complex, is given and a neotype for this species is designated. Nine new junior synonymies of M. quadrifasciata are proposed and discussed. The new synonyms and their respective type hosts are: Myrsidea anoxanthi Price and Dalgleish, 2007 from Loxipasser anoxanthus (Gosse, 1847), Myrsidea argentina (Kellogg, 1906) from Spinus magellanicus (Vieillot, 1805), Myrsidea balati Mach\á{\v c}ek, 1977 from Passer montanus (Linnaeus, 1758), Myrsidea darwini Palma and Price, 2010 from Geospiza fuliginosa Gould, 1837, Myrsidea major (Piaget, 1880) from Plectrophenax nivalis (Linnaeus, 1758), Myrsidea serini (S\éguy, 1944) from Serinus serinus (Linnaeus, 1766), Myrsidea queleae Tendeiro, 1964 from Quelea quelea lathami (Smith, A., 1836), Myrsidea textoris Klockenhoff, 1984 from Ploceus cucullatus cucullatus (M\üller, 1776), and Myrsidea viduae Tendeiro, 1993 from Vidua macroura (Pallas, 1764). Intraspecific morphometric variability, relative genetic divergence (based on a 379 bp portion of the mitochondrial COI gene and a 347 bp portion of the nuclear EF-1\α gene), geographical distribution, and host associations, including 8 new host records for these lice, are discussed. Taking into consideration these parameters we suggest that the only way to deal with these taxa is to follow concept of subspecies with the following taxa and their geographic distributon: Palearctic Region: M. q. quadrifasciata and M. q. serini, Neotropical Region: M. q. anoxanthi, M. q. argentina, M. q. darwini, Paleotropic Region: M. q. queleae, M. q. textoris and M. q. viduae.

}, keywords = {chewing louse, geographic distribution, Host specificity, morphometry, Myrsidea anoxanthi, Myrsidea darwini, parasite, polyxenous}, issn = {1864-8312, 1863-7221}, doi = {10.3897/asp.79.e63975}, url = {https://arthropod-systematics.arphahub.com/article/63975/element/7/0/vidua/}, author = {Old{\v r}ich Sychra and KOLENCIK, STANISLAV and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Branka Bilbija and Ivan Liter{\'a}k} } @article {95111, title = {Combining Nuclear and Mitochondrial Loci Provides Phylogenetic Information in the Philopterus Complex of Lice (Psocodea: Ischnocera: Philopteridae)}, journal = {Journal of Medical Entomology}, volume = {58}, year = {2021}, month = {Jan 2021}, pages = {252{\textendash}26}, abstract = {

The Philopterus Complex includes several lineages of lice that occur on birds. The complex includes the genera Philopterus (Nitzsch, 1818; Psocodea: Philopteridae), Philopteroides (Mey, 2004; Psocodea: Philopteridae), and many other lineages that have sometimes been regarded as separate genera. Only a few studies have investigated the phylogeny of this complex, all of which are based on morphological data. Here we evaluate the utility of nuclear and mitochondrial loci for recovering the phylogeny within this group. We obtained phylogenetic trees from 39 samples of the Philopterus Complex (Psocodea: Philopteridae), using sequences of two nuclear (hyp and TMEDE6) and one mitochondrial (COI) marker. We evaluated trees derived from these genes individually as well as from concatenated sequences. All trees show 20 clearly demarcated taxa (i.e., putative species) divided into five well-supported clades. Percent sequence divergence between putative species (~5\–30\%) for the COI gene tended to be much higher than those for the nuclear genes (~1\–15\%), as expected. In cases where species are described, the lineages identified based on molecular divergence correspond to morphologically defined species. In some cases, species that are host generalists exhibit additional underlying genetic variation and such cases need to be explored by further future taxonomic revisions of the Philopterus Complex.

Attachment 95111.pdf -Advance access version published in August 2020

}, keywords = {genetic divergence, molecular data, Passeriformes, Philopteroides cucphuongensis, Philopteroides flavala, Philopterus gustafssoni, Tyranniphilopterus sp.}, issn = {0022-2585}, doi = {10.1093/jme/tjaa166}, url = {https://academic.oup.com/jme/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jme/tjaa166/5896027}, author = {Tomas Najer and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Andrew D. Sweet and Kevin P. Johnson} } @article {94995, title = {New records of Philopterus (Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from~Acrocephalidae and Locustellidae, with description of one~new~species from Regulidae}, journal = {European Journal of Taxonomy}, year = {2020}, pages = {37 pp}, type = {Open Access}, abstract = {

One species of the louse genus Philopterus Nitzsch, 1818 is redescribed and illustrated: Philopterus acrocephalus Carriker, 1949 ex Acrocephalus luscinius (Quoy \& Gaimard, 1830), A.\ melanopogon (Temminck, 1823), A. scirpaceus (Hermann, 1804), A. schoenobaenus (Linnaeus, 1758), Iduna aedon rufescens Stegmann, 1929, I. rama (Sykes, 1832), Locustella sp. and L. ochotensis (von Middendorff, 1853). Philopterus acrocephalus represents the first species of the Philopterus-complex recorded in the family Locustellidae Bonaparte, 1854. Philopterus gustafssoni sp.\ nov. is described ex Regulus regulus (Linnaeus, 1758), R. regulus regulus (Linnaeus, 1758), R. regulus azoricus Seebohm, 1883, R.\ regulus buturlini von Loudon, 1911, R. regulus sanctaemariae Vaurie, 1954, R. regulus tristis Pleske, 1892 and R. ignicapillus (Temminck, 1820). Descriptions of both species are amended with genetic data, DNA sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I, nuclear hyp and TMEDE6; concatenated sequences are compared to the morphologically nearest species with genetic data available, Philopterus citrinellae (Schrank, 1776) and Philopterus fringillae (Scopoli, 1772). Holotype of Philopterus reguli (Denny, 1842) is pronounced to be a straggler, determination of other known material from Regulidae is changed for Philopterus gustafssoni sp.\ nov.

\ A response to this publication : Mey (2020), Notes on the descriptions of some Philopterus species (Insecta, Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae s. l.) of Reed warblers (Acrocephalidae), Kinglets (Regulidae) and Tits (Paridae): a response, VERNATE vol 39; 153-167 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347388567_Notes_on_the_descriptions_of_some_Philopterus_species_Insecta_Phthiraptera_Ischnocera_Philopteridae_s_l_of_Reed_warblers_Acrocephalidae_Kinglets_Regulidae_and_Tits_Paridae_a_response or http://phthiraptera.info/node/95393

}, keywords = {Acrocephalus luscinius, Chewing lice, Iduna aedon rufescens, kinglets, new species, Passeriforme, Philopterus gustafssoni, reed warblers}, issn = {2118 - 9773}, doi = {10.5852/ejt.2020.632}, url = {https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/911}, author = {Tomas Najer and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Costic{\u a} Adam and Trnka,Alfr{\'e}d and Van Thi Quach and Chinh_Ngoc Nguyen and Roman Figura and Ivan Liter{\'a}k and Old{\v r}ich Sychra} } @article {94404, title = {New species and additional data on the chewing louse genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from wild Neotropical Passeriformes (Aves)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4418}, year = {2018}, month = {Oct-05-2018}, pages = {401 - 431}, abstract = {

Twenty-four species of chewing lice of the genus Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from Neotrop- ical Suboscines (Passeriformes: Formicariidae, Furnariidae, Pipridae, Thamnophilidae, Tityridae, Tyrannidae) are record- ed and discussed. They include: eight new species which are described and illustrated (Myrsidea capeki new species ex Chiroxiphia caudata; Myrsidea leptopogoni new species ex Leptopogon superciliaris; Myrsidea leucophthalmi new spe- cies ex Automolus leucophthalmus; Myrsidea pachyramphi new species ex Pachyramphus polychopterus; Myrsidea phi- lydori new species ex Philydor rufum; Myrsidea pyriglenae new species ex Pyriglena leucoptera; Myrsidea scleruri new species ex Sclerurus scansor and Myrsidea zuzanae new species ex Furnarius rufus), as well as nine previously known species with additional data on intraspecific morphological variability, host associations and geographical distribution (Myrsidea barbati Price, Hellenthal \& Dalgleish, 2005; Myrsidea dalgleishi Valim, Price \& Johnson, 2011; Myrsidea fla- viventris Price, Hellenthal \& Dalgleish, 2005; Myrsidea klimesi Sychra, 2006; Myrsidea meyi Valim, Price \& Johnson, 2011; Myrsidea oleaginei Price, Hellenthal \& Dalgleish, 2005; Myrsidea olivacei Price, Hellenthal \& Dalgleish, 2005; Myrsidea pitangi Price, Hellenthal \& Dalgleish, 2005 and Myrsidea spellmani Price, Johnson \& Dalgleish, 2008b). Seven further species are recorded at genus level only due to lack of adequate material. A 379 bp portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene was sequenced from seven species in order to assess relative genetic divergences among Myrsidea populations.

}, keywords = {Brazil, COI, Costa Rica, Honduras, new data, new species, Paraguay, Peru, Suboscines, Thamnophilidae, Tityridae}, issn = {1175-5326 (print), 1175-5334 (online)}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4418.51}, url = {https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/viewFile/38713/33069}, author = {KOLENCIK, STANISLAV and Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Kamila M. D. Kuabara and Michel Paiva Valim and Ivan Liter{\'a}k} } @article {94324, title = {Where are the species limits? Morphology versus genetics in Neotropical chewing lice of the genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae), with description of three new species}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4324}, year = {2017}, month = {26 Sept. 2017}, pages = {161 - 179}, abstract = {

Eleven species of lice of the genus Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from passerine birds (Passer- iformes: Cardinalidae, Fringillidae, Thraupidae) in the Neotropical Region are recorded and discussed. They include three new species with hosts in the family Thraupidae from Paraguay, which are described and illustrated: Myrsidea flaveolae new species ex Sicalis flaveola, Myrsidea habiae new species ex Habia rubica, and Myrsidea sayacae new species ex Thraupis sayaca. Five other previously known Myrsidea species are included with new data on intraspecific morpholog- ical variability, hosts associations and geographical distribution, as follows: Myrsidea coronatae, M. lightae, M. rufi, M. seminuda, and M. violaceae. Three further species are recorded at genus level only due to lack of adequate material. A 379 bp portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene was sequenced in order to assess relative genetic divergence among Myrsidea populations. The application of intra- and interspecific sequence divergences as predictor of species boundaries in the taxonomy of this megadiverse genus is discussed.

}, keywords = {Cardinalidae, Fringillidae, genetic data, Honduras, intraspecific and interspecific divergences, lice, new host-louse associations, new species, Paraguay, Peru, Thraupidae}, url = {http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/viewFile/zootaxa.4324.1.9/12496}, author = {KOLENCIK, STANISLAV and Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Ivan Liter{\'a}k} } @article {68852, title = {An Annotated Checklist of Amblyceran Chewing Lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera) from Wild Passerine Birds (Passeriformes) in South Africa}, journal = {African Entomology}, volume = {22}, year = {2014}, month = {Jan-12-2014}, pages = {762 - 778}, abstract = {

A total of 778 individuals of 150 bird species were examined: 123 (16 \%) individuals of 40 non-passerine bird species belonging to 16 orders; and 655 (84 \%) individuals of 110 passerine bird species (Passeriformes) belonging to 28 families. A total of 2041 chewing lice belonging to nine genera were found on passerine birds. Amblyceran lice were less frequent than ischnoceran lice (32.8 \% vs 67.2 \%, n = 2041). A total of 670 amblyceran lice (mean intensity = 5.0) were found on 133 passerine birds (20.3 \%) of 43 species. The dominant amblyceran genus was Menacanthus with a dominance of 59.3 \%, while the other two genera were less frequent: Myrsidea (36.9 \%) and Ricinus (3.9 \%). A total of 50 amblyceran louse\–host associations were recorded. An equal overall sex ratio as well as age ratio was found among the collected lice. An updated checklist of the species of amblyceran lice from passerine birds from South Africa is included and discussed. Two families, five genera and 32 species of lice are listed from 42 passerine bird hosts.

}, keywords = {Amblycera, checklist, Chewing lice, Colpocephalum, Machaerilaemus, Menacanthus, Menoponidae, Myrsidea, Passeriformes, Prevalence, Ricinus, sex ratio, South Africa}, issn = {1021-3589}, doi = {10.4001/003.022.0414}, url = {http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.4001/003.022.0414}, author = {Ali Halajian and Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Luus-Powell, Wilmien and Engelbrecht, Derek and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek} } @article {68842, title = {Amblyceran Chewing Lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera) from Wild Passerines (Passeriformes) in South Africa, with a Note to Their Phylogenetic Relationships and with the Description of a New Species in the Genus Myrsidea}, journal = {African Entomology}, volume = {22}, year = {2014}, month = {Jan-09-2014}, pages = {589 - 601}, abstract = {

A total of 655 individuals of 110 passerine species belonging to 28 families were examined for chewing lice in South Africa. A total of 80 (12 \%) birds of 33 species were parasitized with amblyceran chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera) belonging to three genera: Menacanthus, Myrsidea and Ricinus. In this paper we report the occurrence of 11 species of chewing lice identified from 38 birds of 16 species. Three samples of chewing lice containing only nymphs were identified to the generic level only. Description and illustrations are given for Myrsidea oatleyi Sychra \& Halajian, sp. n. ex Pogonocichla stellata (Vieillot, 1818) (Muscicapidae). Our data represent the first louse records for Lanius collaris Linnaeus, 1766 (Laniidae), Cossypha dichroa (Gmelin, 1789) and Pogonocichla stellata (Muscicapidae), and Andropadus importunus (Vieillot, 1818) and Chlorocichla flaviventris (A. Smith, 1834) (Pycnonotidae). Records of new host\–louse associations are: Cecropis abyssinica (Gu\érin-Meneville, 1843) (Hirundinidae) for Myrsidea rustica (Giebel, 1874); Cossypha dichroa (Muscicapidae) for Ricinus mugimaki (Uchida, 1915); Lanius collaris (Laniidae) for Menacanthus camelinus (Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1874); Ploceus intermedius R\üppell, 1845 (Ploceidae) for Myrsidea textoris Klockenhoff, 1984; and Prinia flavicans (Vieillot, 1820) (Cisticolidae) for Menacanthus curuccae (Schrank, 1776). A portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene for some species of chewing lice was sequenced in order to assess their genetic divergences.

}, keywords = {Chewing lice, Menacanthus, Menoponidae, mitochondrial COI., Myrsidea, new host{\textendash}louse associations, new species, Passerines, Ricinus, sequence, South Africa}, issn = {1021-3589}, doi = {10.4001/003.022.0320}, url = {http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.4001/003.022.0320}, author = {Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Ali Halajian and Luus-Powell, Wilmien and Engelbrecht, Derek and Symes, C. and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek} } @article {68797, title = {Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera et Ischnocera) from wrens (Passeriformes: Troglodytidae), with description of a new species of Myrsidea}, journal = {Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae}, volume = {54}, year = {2014}, pages = {1-27}, abstract = {

A total of 114 individuals of 14 wren species (Aves: Passeriformes: Troglodytidae) were examined. Nineteen birds (17 \%) of six species were parasitised with 292 chewing lice (mean intensity = 15.4 lice per bird) belonging to three genera \– Brueelia K\éler, 1936, Penenirmus Clay \& Meinertzhagen, 1938 (Ischnocera: Philopteridae) and Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 (Amblycera: Menoponidae). Data on the occurrence of chewing lice on wrens, including geographical distributions and some parasitological parameters \– such as prevalence and mean intensity \– are updated and discussed. A description and illustrations are given for Myrsidea fasciata sp. nov. from Campylorhynchus fasciatus (Swainson, 1837) from Costa Rica. Penenirmus albiventris (Scopoli, 1763) is redescribed from Troglodytes troglodytes (Linnaeus, 1758) (from the Czech Republic and Slovakia) and from T. aedon Vieillot, 1809 (from Peru). Intraspecific morphological variation of P. albiventris is discussed, and detailed figures are given. A portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene was sequenced from some species of Myrsidea and Penenirmus in order to assess their relative genetic divergence. An updated list of all species of lice recorded from wrens, including their geographic distribution, and a host-louse list are also given.

}, keywords = {Amblycera; Ischnocera; chewing lice; bird parasites; prevalence; mean intensity; geographic distribution; mitochondrial COI; phylogeny; taxonomy; new species; Troglodytes; wrens; Neotropical Region; Palaearctic Region}, author = {Old{\v r}ich Sychra and Filip Kounek and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and M. {\v C}apek and Jorge Manuel C{\'a}rdenas-Callirgos and Sebastian Franco and Ivan Liter{\'a}k} } @article {68789, title = {Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) from wild birds in southern Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {3755}, year = {2014}, month = {Dec-01-2015}, pages = {419}, abstract = {

A total of 239 individuals of 50 bird species were examined for chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) in southern Vietnam. Fifty-six birds of 20 species were parasitised by 15 species of lice belonging to 10 genera from two suborders, Amblycera: Menacanthus, Meromenopon, Myrsidea, and Ischnocera: Alcedoecus, Brueelia, Cuculicola, Meropoecus, Penenirmus, Philopteroides and Philopterus. Thirteen louse samples from Passeriformes were identified to genus only because they contain inadequate material. A total of 29 host-louse associations were found, of which nine are new, including: (1) two new species of the genus Brueelia, which are described and named in this paper: Brueelia binhchauensis from Megalaima lineata (Vieillot, 1816) (Piciformes: Megalaimidae), and Brueelia malacocincla from Malacocincla abbotti Blyth, 1845 (Passeriformes: Pellorneidae); (2) first records of lice from Cyornis hainanus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1900); and (3) the first record of Myrsidea claytoni Hellenthal \& Price, 2003 from Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos (Gmelin, 1788) (Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae), here regarded as a case of natural host-switching. A portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene for some species of chewing lice was sequenced in order to assess their genetic divergences.

}, keywords = {Alcedoecus, birds, Brueelia, Coraciiformes, Cuculicola, Cuculiformes, host-switching, lice, Menacanthus, Meromenopon, Meropoecus, Myrsidea Penenirmus, new host-louse associations, new species, Passeriformes, Philopteroides, Philopterus, Phthiraptera, Pici}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.3755.510.11646/zootaxa.3755.5.2}, url = {http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.3755.5http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3755.5.2}, author = {Tomas Najer and Old{\v r}ich Sychra and KOUNEK, FILIP and Ivo Papou{\v s}ek and Hung,Nguyen Manh} }