| chewing lice (phthiraptera) from wild birds in senegal, with descriptions of three new species of the genera brueelia and philopteroides. | a total of 170 wild birds from senegal, belonging to 48 species and 9 orders, were searched for lice in 2005 and 2007. chewing lice were found on 58 birds of 18 species and 5 orders (columbiformes, cuculiformes, coraciiformes, galliformes and passeriformes). twenty-two species of chewing lice of 13 genera were determined. other nine samples of chewing lice that represent a new host-parasite association were determined at generic level only, because only one sex or nymph of these lice were found. ... | 2012 | 22807019 |