New records and a new species of chewing lice (Phthiraptera, Amblycera, Ischnocera) found on Columbidae (Columbiformes) in Pakistan [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2012 The chewing lice (Phthiraptera) of Columbidae (Columbiformes) from Pakistan are studied. Six species of chewing lice with new host records are recorded and one new species of the genus Colpocephalum is described from Columba livia in the Karachi region ...
Saima Naz +2 more
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Composition and distribution of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) on Colombian and Peruvian birds: New data on louse-host association in the Neotropics [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2018 The diversity of permanent ectoparasites is likely underestimated due to the difficulty of collecting samples. Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) are permanent ectoparasites of birds and mammals; there are approximately 5,000 species described and many more ...
Juliana Soto-Patiño +9 more
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Ectoparasites of the critically endangered insular cavy, Cavia intermedia (Rodentia: Caviidae), southern Brazil [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015 Cavia intermedia is a rodent species critically endangered and is found only on a 10 hectare island off the southern Brazilian coast. To identify the ectoparasites of C.
André Luis Regolin +4 more
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FIRST REPORT OF CICONIPHILUS DECIMFASCIATUS (AMBLYCERA: MENOPONIDAE) IN CASMERODIUS ALBUS (AVES: CICONIIFORMES) FROM BRAZIL [PDF]
Arquivos do Instituto Biológico, 2005 ABSTRACT This article reports, for the first time in Brazil, the occurrence of the louse Ciconiphilus decimfasciatus parasitizing the great egret (Casmerodius albus) from the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.
Ana Paula Neuschrank Albano +2 more
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Lice infestation and diversity in turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in the Special Region of Yogyakarta and Central Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2020 Background and Aim: Biting lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) are ectoparasites that play important roles in the transmission of disease agents that infect turkeys and impact turkey productivity.
Joko Prastowo +6 more
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Drastic variation in mitochondrial genome organization between two congeneric species of bird lice (Philopteridae: Ibidoecus) [PDF]
BMC GenomicsThe over 4,100 species of bird lice are classified into 214 genera in the parvorders Amblycera and Ischnocera. Congeneric species of bird lice usually share much similarity in morphology and in mitochondrial (mt) genome organization.
Mei-Ling Cao +8 more
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A note on the haematophagous nature of poultry shaft louse, Menopon gallinae (Amblycera: Phthiraptera). [PDF]
J Parasit Dis, 2017 An analysis of the crop contents of the poultry shaft louse, Menopon gallina indicates that 67 % of adult males and 72 % of the adult females examined carried red content compatible to host blood, along with feather barbules. The percentage of nymphal instars carrying red content in the crop was quite low.
Kumar S, Ahmad A, Ali R, Kumar V.
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A key to the genera of the Menoponidae (Amblycera: Mallophaga: Insecta)
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 1969 Theresa Clay
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NUEVOS PIOJOS (PHTHIRAPTERA: AMBLYCERA, ISCHNOCERA) REGISTRADOS EN AVES MARINAS Y COSTERAS DE URUGUAY [PDF]
Gayana (Concepción), 2007 In this study, 17 lice species were collected and identified from marine and coastal birds from the Atlantic Ocean coast, rivers and lagoons of Uruguay. Among them, 16 species (one at generic level only) are recorded for the first time for this country.
José M. Venzal +5 more
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Three new species of Dennyus Neumann, 1906 (Phthiraptera, Amblycera, Menoponidae) parasitic on swifts (Aves, Apodiformes, Apodidae) in Brazil [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2013 Descriptions and illustrations are given for three new species of the chewing louse genus Dennyus on Brazilian Swifts. They and their type hosts are: D.
Michel P. Valim
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