New host records and descriptions of five new species of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from passerine birds (Aves: Passeriformes)

ROGER D. PRICE ¹KEVIN P. JOHNSON ²MICHEL P. VALIM³

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1. 1409 Burnham Court, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72903, USA
2. Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
3. Zoology-Bird Division, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA
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Abstract

Three species of previously described Myrsidea from the birds Lochmias nematura obscurata Cabanis, Automolus ochro-laemus (Tschudi, 1844) (both Furnariidae) and Pachyramphus cinnamomeus Lawrence, 1861 (Cotingidae) are redescribed, including new host and geographical records. Five new species of Myrsidea from the Neotropics are described and illustrated. These species and their type hosts are: M. waterstoni n. sp. from Anabacerthia variegaticeps (Sclater), M. meyi n. sp. from Syndactyla subalaris (Sclater) (Furnariidae), M. dalgleishi n. sp. from Glyphorynchus spirurus (Vieillot) (Dendrocolaptidae), M. cicchinoi n. sp. from Rhynchocyclus olivaceus (Temminck) (Tyrannidae), and M. castroae n. sp. from Atlapetes albinucha gutturalis (Lafresnaye) (Emberizidae). Sequences of a portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene for four of these new species were highly divergent from those of other species of Myrsidea.

Key words

Myrsidea/chewing lice/new species/new host records/redescriptions/Neotropics/phylogeny/taxonomy

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出版年

2011

Zootaxa

SCI

ISSN：1175-5326

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