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External and intestinal parasites of the Austral thrush Turdus falcklandii (Aves, Turdidae) in central Chile

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
A total of thirty Austral thrushes Turdus falcklandii Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (Turdidae) carcasses were brought to the Departamento de Ciencia Animal, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Concepción, to be examined for ecto- and endoparasites ...
Sebastián Llanos-Soto, Mabel Córdoba, Lucila Moreno, John Mike Kinsella, Sergey Mironov, Armando Cicchino, Carlos Barrientos, Julio San Martín-Ordenes, Daniel González-Acuña   +8 more
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A new species of sucking louse Hoplopleura villosissima n. sp. (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Hoplopleuridae) and a new host record of the spiny rat louse Polyplax spinulosa Burmeister, 1839 (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Polyplacidae) from the long-haired rat Rattus villosissimus Waite (Rodentia: Muridae) in Australia

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background The sucking louse fauna of endemic Australian rodents has been under-studied for decades. Sixty-five species of native rodents have been recorded in Australia.
Wei Wang, Haylee J. Weaver, Fan Song, Lance A. Durden, Renfu Shao   +4 more
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Dos nuevos registros de piojos masticadores (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) sobre Leptotila megalura (Aves: Columbidae) en la Argentina Two new records of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) on Leptotila megalura (Aves: Columbidae) from Argentina

Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 2008
Dos especies de piojos masticadores (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae), Physconelloides ceratoceps Ewing y Columbicola gracilicapitis Carriker, son registradas por primera vez sobre Leptotila megalura Sclater & Salvin ("yerutí yungueña") (Aves ...
Leonor Guardia
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First evidence of the mutations associated with pyrethroid resistance in head lice (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) from Honduras

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background The human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis , is a cosmopolitan blood-sucking ectoparasite affecting mostly schoolchildren in both developed and developing countries.
Kelsey Larkin, C. Rodríguez, Shabana Jamani, Georgina Fronza, G. Roca-Acevedo, Ana Sanchez, A. Toloza   +6 more
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Data supporting a molecular phylogeny of the hyper-diverse genus Brueelia

Data in Brief, 2015
Data is presented in support of a phylogenetic reconstruction of one of the largest, and most poorly understood, groups of lice: the Brueelia-complex (Bush et al., 2015 [1]).
Sarah E. Bush, Jason D. Weckstein, Daniel R. Gustafsson, Julie Allen, Emily DiBlasi, Scott M. Shreve, Rachel Boldt, Heather R. Skeen, Kevin P. Johnson   +8 more
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Epidemiological characterization and risk evaluation associated with the presence of Phthiraptera in poultry farms from Minas Gerais, Brazil

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2019
Phthiraptera are lice highly adapted to living as permanent and obligatory ectoparasites of birds and mammals. High infestations by biting lice contribute to the low productivity, loss quality of the eggs, besides weight decrease of chickens.
Tiago Mendonça de Oliveira, Cristina Mara Teixeira, Mariana Olímpia Köhler Marra Pinto, Thiago Luiz Mendes Arcebispo, Amanda Soriano-Araújo, Lucas Maciel Cunha, Soraia Araújo Diniz, Marcos Xavier Silva   +7 more
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Las especies del género Gyropus Nitzsch, 1818 (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae) parásitas de Octodontidae (Mammalia: Rodentia) The species of the genus Gyropus Nitzch, 1818 (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae) parasitic on the Octodontidae (Mammalia: Rodentia)

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2002
Este trabajo tiene por finalidad otorgar status específico pleno a la subespecie Gyropus parvus elongatus Castro, Cicchino & Torres-Mura, 1987, describir la nueva especie Gyropus distinctus a partir de materiales recolectados sobre Octodon degus (Molina,
DOLORES DEL CARMEN CASTRO, ARMANDO CICCHINO   +1 more
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Morphological variation of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from different skua taxa [PDF]

, 2000
Rosli Ramli, Maggie Cusack, Gordon B. Curry, Robert W. Furness   +3 more
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The taxonomy of Brazilian insects vectors of transmissible diseases (1900-2000) - then and now

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2000
A brief historical overview is given of the most relevant taxonomic studies of insect groups vectors of transmissible diseases in Brazil, from the "heroic" times of the foundation of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro up to the present.
Nelson Papavero, José Henrique Guimarães   +1 more
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A new host record of Ciconiphilus decimfasciatus (Boisduval & Lacordaire, 1835) (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) in Iran with a taxonomic note and a checklist of the lice of Guilan Province [PDF]

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
There is little information about the lice infesting birds and mammals in Guilan Province of northern Iran besides their importance in medicine and veterinary medicine.
Shahyad Azari-Hamidian, Meysam Sharifdini, Alireza Sazmand   +2 more
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