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Issue: Vol. 4139 No. 4: 22 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.4.5
Page range: 527–541
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 39

Two new species of Philopteroides (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) of the beckeri species-group, from New Guinean painted berrypeckers (Aves: Passeriformes: Paramythiidae)

Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho tr. 1, 612 42, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC.
Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho tr. 1, 612 42, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC.
Phthiraptera Ischnocera Philopteridae Philopteroides beckeri species-group lice new species Passeriformes Paramythiidae berrypeckers New Guinea

Abstract

Two new species of the louse genus Philopteroides Mey, 2004 are described and illustrated from two host species of painted berrypeckers, endemic to New Guinea: Philopteroides sinancorellus n. sp. ex Oreocharis arfaki (Meyer, 1875) (tit berrypecker), and Philopteroides gigas n. sp. ex Paramythia montium De Vis, 1892 (crested berrypecker). Both louse species belong to the beckeri species-group based on their short, broad preantennal areas, and shallow median indentations of the hyaline margin. The description of these two new species brings the total number of Philopteroides species to 15. An amended key to the beckeri species-group is included.

 

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