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The identity ofMenacanthus eisenachensisBalát (Insecta, Phthiraptera, Amblycera, Menoponidae) from the Reed Warbler (Passeriformes, Sylviidae)

✍ Scribed by Oldřich Sychra; Jens-Kjeld Jensen; Michael de L. Brooke; Alfréd Trnka; Petr Procházka; Ivan Literák


Book ID
111490620
Publisher
Versita
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
101 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
1230-2821

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Abstract

Three hundred and thirty-one Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus (Hermann) were examined for chewing lice (Phthiraptera). Twenty-eight (8.5%) were parasitized with Menacanthus curuccae (Schrank, 1776). Mean intensity of infestation was 4.3 lice. Hence, the name Menacanthus eisenachensis Balát, 1981, currently applied to Menacanthus lice parasitizing Reed Warblers, is placed as a junior synonym of M. curuccae, with Reed Warbler as a new host for the latter species.


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