TY - JOUR T1 - Four new species of Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae) from Chinese babblers (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae, Paradoxornithidae, Timaliidae) JF - Zootaxa Y1 - 2020 DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.1.4 A1 - Lujia Lei A1 - Xingzhi Chu A1 - Bilal Dik A1 - Fasheng Zou A1 - Haitao WANG A1 - Daniel R Gustafsson SP - 103 EP - 128 KW - babblers KW - China KW - Leiothrichidae KW - Myrsidea attenuata n. sp. KW - Myrsidea liopari n. sp. KW - Myrsidea suthorae n. sp. KW - Myrsidea zhangae n. sp. KW - new species KW - Paradoxornithidae KW - Timaliidae AB -

Four new species of amblyceran chewing lice of the genus Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 are described from hosts of the babbler families Leiothrichidae, Paradoxornithidae and Timaliidae in China. They are: Myrsidea attenuata n. sp. from Garrulax maesi maesi (Oustalet, 1890), Myrsidea zhangae n. sp. from Ianthocincla berthemyi (Oustalet, 1876), Myrsidea liopari n. sp. from Lioparus chrysotis amoenus (Mayr, 1941) and L. chrysotis swinhoii (Verreaux, 1871), and Myrsidea suthorae n. sp. from Suthora verreauxi verreauxi Sharpe, 1883. A checklist of host-louse associations for identified and unidentified Myrsidea species known from babblers is provided.

VL - 4878 UR - https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4878.1.4 IS - 1 JO - Zootaxa ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Chewing lice from high‐altitude and migrating birds in Yunnan, China, with descriptions of two new species of Guimaraesiella JF - Medical and Veterinary Entomology Y1 - 2019 DO - 10.1111/mve.12378 A1 - Daniel R Gustafsson A1 - Lujia Lei A1 - Kang Luo A1 - Xingzhi Chu A1 - Xiucai Zhao A1 - Qiang Zhang A1 - Fasheng Zou SP - 407 EP - 419 KW - Guimaraesiella KW - Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) ailaoshanensis KW - Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) montisodalis KW - Maculinirmus ljosalfar KW - new hosts KW - new location KW - new species KW - Yunnan AB -

In total, 366 birds representing 55 species in 24 families and eight orders, were examined for chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) in two high-altitude localities in Yunnan Province, China. In Ailaoshan, almost all of the birds examined were resident passeriforms, of which 36% were parasitized by chewing lice. In Jinshanyakou, most birds were on migration, and included both passerine and non-passerine birds. Of the passerine birds caught in Jinshanyakou, only one bird (0.7%) was parasitized by chewing lice. The prevalence of Myrsidea and Brueelia-complex lice on birds caught in Ailaoshan was higher than in previous reports. Of the chewing lice identifiable to species level, three represent new records for China: Actornithophilus hoplopteri (Mjöberg, 1910), Maculinirmus ljosalfar Gustafsson & Bush, 2017 and Quadraceps sinensis Timmermann, 1954. In total, 17 new host records are included, of which we describe two as new species in the Brueelia-complex: Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) ailaoshanensis sp. nov. ex Schoeniparus dubius dubius (Hume, 1874) and G. (C.) montisodalis sp. nov. ex Fulvetta manipurensis tonkinensis Delacour & Jabouille, 1930.

VL - 33 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mve.12378 JO - Med Vet Entomol ER -