Chewing lice from wild passerines (Aves, Passeriformes) from Vietnam, with description of a new species of the genusBrueelia(Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae)
✍ Scribed by Oldřich Sychra; Ivan Literák; Nguyen Manh Hung; Petr Podzemný
- Book ID
- 111490637
- Publisher
- Versita
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 773 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1230-2821
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Seven species of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) were found on six species of passerine birds (Passeriformes) in northern Vietnam. A description and illustrations of Brueelia alophoixi sp. nov. ex Alophoixus pallidus (Pycnonotidae) are given. New host records are: Abroscopus superciliaris (Sylviidae) for Myrsidea sp.; and Orthotomus sutorius (Sylviidae) and Lonchura striata (Estrildidae) for Brueelia spp.
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