| chewing lice (phthiraptera: amblycera and ischnocera) from wild birds in southern vietnam, with descriptions of two new species. | a total of 239 individuals of 50 bird species were examined for chewing lice (insecta: phthiraptera) in southern vietnam. fifty-six birds of 20 species were parasitised by 15 species of lice belonging to 10 genera from two suborders, amblycera: menacanthus, meromenopon, myrsidea, and ischnocera: alcedoecus, brueelia, cuculicola, meropoecus, penenirmus, philopteroides and philopterus. thirteen louse samples from passeriformes were identified to genus only because they contain inadequate material. ... | 2014 | 24869830 |
| myrsidea claytoni (phthiraptera: menoponidae) from cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos (passeriformes: eurylaimidae): a case of natural host switching. | thirty-two black-and-red broadbill cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos were examined for chewing lice in vietnam. all birds examined were parasitized by myrsidea claytoni. mean abundance was 27.3, with intensity range 5-80 lice per bird. this is the first report of a myrsidea from this host, although the females differ slightly from the original description of m. claytoni from pycnonotus eutilotus in the shape of metanotum and of tergites i-ii. so this is also the first record of 1 species of myrsidea f ... | 2014 | 24393023 |