Chewing lice from wild passerines (Aves, Passeriformes) from Vietnam, with description of a new species of the genus Brueelia (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae)

Sychra, Oldřich; Literák, Ivan; Hùng, Nguyễn Mạnh; Podzemný, Petr

doi:10.2478/s11686-009-0022-6

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“…For example, in Vietnam, 18 bird samples belonging to 6 genera out of 45 Passeriformes were found to be infested with chewing lice, and 7 louse species were identified on the examined birds. Six out of the 7 lice were found to be new species (15). According to some authors (5,6), the genus Menacanthus has many species, is cosmopolitan, and its host specificity is very low.…”

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Chewing Lice (Phthiraptera) Found on Songbirds (Passeriformes) in Turkey

Dık¹,

Kirpik²,

Şekercioğlu³

et al. 2011

TurkiyeParazitolDerg

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Objective: This study was performed to detect chewing lice species found on the songbirds at Lake Kuyucuk bird ringing station in the Kars province located in eastern Turkey. Methods: Chewing lice were collected from songbirds captured between September and October 2009. Fifty-one birds belonging to 22 species and 16 genera from 10 families were examined for the louse. Results: Eleven of 51 birds (21.57%) belonging to 7 species; were infested with at least one chewing louse species. The collected lice were identified as Menacanthus chrysophaeus (Kellogg, 1896) on Reed Bunting, Menacanthus pusillus (Nitzsch,1866) on Water Pipits, Calandra Lark and Yellow Wagtail, Myrsidea rustica (Giebel,1874) on Swallow, Brueelia cruciata (Burmeister,1838) on Red-backed Shrike, and Penenirmus rarus (Zlotorzycka,1976) on Chiffchaff. All four Reed Bunting specimens were infested with Menacanthus chrysophaeus. The rate of infestation was 100% in Reed Bunting, Red-backed Shrike and Swallow; 66.7% in Yellow Wagtail; 50% in Calandra Lark and Chiffchaff and 11.1% in Water Pipits. No louse infestation was found in the birds belonging to Paridae, Passeridae, Sylviidae, and Muscipapidae families. Conclusion: Menacanthus chrysophaeus on Reed Bunting and Menacanthus pusillus on Calandra Lark are new hosts for these lice species. All the louse species determined in the present study are fi rst records for Turkey. (Turkiye Parazitol Derg 2011; 35: 34-9)

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Chewing Lice (Phthiraptera) Found on Songbirds (Passeriformes) in Turkey

Dık¹,

Kirpik²,

Şekercioğlu³

et al. 2011

TurkiyeParazitolDerg

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“…Also, chewing lice belonging to the genus Brueelia were compared with all species of this genus known from birds which occur in Vietnam according to Lepage (2013). These papers were also used for comparisons: Ansari (1956aAnsari ( , 1956bAnsari ( , 1956cAnsari ( , 1957a, Mey (1982), Najer et al (2012a, b), Piaget (1880), Sychra et al (2009) andZłotorzycka (1997).…”

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“…From 9 to 22 September 2011, birds were captured alive, examined, deloused as described by Sychra et al (2009), and subsequently released. Identifications of bird species were based on Robson (2008), but their taxonomy follows Clements et al (2012).…”

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“…However, there are only ten species of chewing lice recorded from Vietnam itself (Mey 2004;Sychra et al 2009;Najer et al 2012a,b), with all the other species known from neighbouring countries. Whereas our previous papers (Sychra et al 2009;Najer et al 2012a,b) presented data on chewing lice found in northern Vietnam, the aim of this paper is to present new data on those from southern Vietnam, including the descriptions of two new species. A portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene was also sequenced for some species in order to assess their genetic divergences in comparison to previously described species.…”

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“…There are 889 species of birds recorded from Vietnam (Lepage 2013), of which 460 are known as hosts of 758 species of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) belonging to 11 genera Sychra et al 2009;Najer et al 2012a,b). However, there are only ten species of chewing lice recorded from Vietnam itself (Mey 2004;Sychra et al 2009;Najer et al 2012a,b), with all the other species known from neighbouring countries.…”

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Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) from wild birds in southern Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species

Najer

Sychra

Kounek

et al. 2014

Zootaxa

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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. A total of 29 host-louse associations were found, of which nine are new, including: (1) two new species of the genus Brueelia, which are described and named in this paper: Brueelia binhchauensis from Megalaima lineata (Vieillot, 1816) (Piciformes: Megalaimidae), and Brueelia malacocincla from Malacocincla abbotti Blyth, 1845 (Passeriformes: Pellorneidae); (2) first records of lice from Cyornis hainanus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1900); and (3) the first record of Myrsidea claytoni Hellenthal & Price, 2003 from Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos (Gmelin, 1788) (Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae), here regarded as a case of natural host-switching. A portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene for some species of chewing lice was sequenced in order to assess their genetic divergences.

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