Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Authors: | T. Najer, Sychra, O., KOUNEK, F. I. L. I. P., Papoušek, I., Hung, N. Manh |
Journal: | Zootaxa |
Volume: | 3755 |
Issue: | 5 |
Pagination: | 419 |
Date Published: | Dec-01-2015 |
ISSN: | 1175-5326 |
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 |
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. |
URL: | http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.3755.5http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3755.5.2 |
DOI: | 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.510.11646/zootaxa.3755.5.2 |
Short Title: | Zootaxa |
Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) from wild birds in southern Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species
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