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
• DOI: 10.2478/s11686-008-0060-5

✦ Synopsis

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.