Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1978 |
Authors: | E. Mey |
Journal: | Angewandte Parasitologie |
Volume: | 19 |
Pagination: | 19 - 20 |
Date Published: | 1978 |
Abstract: | Hitherto it was known that especially Dennyus hirundinis and D. vonarxi can drink the eye fluid of their hosts. On the 20th of May 1975 in Eisenach, I myself was able to collect two male imagos of D. hirundinis from the eyelids of a sick swift Apus apus apus. Eichler (1940) observed on a cow 'hundreds of Bovicola bovis which were present on the eyelids and apparently drank eye fluid'. Furthermore, B. bovis was observed drinking at open fly wounds. Further observations: Mallophaga Gallacanthus kaddoui on the peacock Pavo cristatus drink eye fluid, and the birds also preen these lice from each other. |
URL: | https://phthiraptera.myspecies.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/0771.pdf |
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