Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Authors: | Z. Abd- Ali Mohammad |
Journal: | World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 7 |
Pagination: | 52 - 60 |
Date Published: | June 2015 |
ISSN: | 2277 - 7105 |
Keywords: | aquatic birds, Chewing lice, Iraq |
Abstract: | A total of 30 of aquatic bird specimens belonging to three bird species were examined for the chewing lice infestation. The birds were collected from Al-Sanaf marsh southern Thi-Qar province, Iraq. five out of totally 30 (16.67%) birds were found to be infested with at least one chewing lice species for each bird. Four different species of chewing lice related to Menoponidae family have been recorded from Iraq for the first time. Actornithophilus piceus lari (Packard, 1870) isolated from Larus genei, Actornithophilus himantopi (Blagoveshtchensky, 1951) and Austromenopon himantopi (Timmermann, 1954) infested Himantopus himantopus, Colpocephalum leptopygos (Nitzsch, 1874) isolated from Plegadis falcinellus. |
URL: | http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/94256.pdf |
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