Published December 12, 2023 | Version v1
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Myrsidea ahmedalii Bughio 2018

  • 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestine & Environmental Education Center (EEC / ELCJHL), Beit Jala, Palestine
  • 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestine
  • 3. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Description

Myrsidea ahmedalii Bughio et al., 2018

Myrsidea ahmedalii Bughio et al., 2018: 94.

Type host. Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766) —common myna.

Type locality. Sindh Province, Pakistan.

Remarks. The lack of a detailed redescription of the type series of Myrsidea invadens (see above) makes it difficult to evaluate whether M. ahmedalii is a different species or a junior synonym. The original description of M. ahmedalii includes a comparison with M. invadens, but the characters used are not those found in the original description of M. invadens, so it is difficult to know what Bughio et al. (2018) actually examined to compare against their new species (Table 4). The correct status of Myrsidea ahmedalii will be known only when the type series of these two species can be compared with each other.

Notes

Published as part of Jarayseh, Bashar, Amaya, Maria & Gustafsson, Daniel R., 2023, Review of the chewing louse fauna of the invasive common myna (Acridotheres tristis), with new records from Palestine and a redescription of Brueelia chayanh Ansari, 1955 (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Brueelia-complex), pp. 325-351 in Zootaxa 5383 (3) on page 334, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10361336

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bughio
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Psocodea
Family
Menoponidae
Genus
Myrsidea
Species
ahmedalii
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Myrsidea ahmedalii Bughio, 2018 sec. Jarayseh, Amaya & Gustafsson, 2023

References

  • Bughio, S., Naz, S. & Birmani, N. A. (2018) New Species of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera Ischnocera) of common myna Acridotheres tristis (Passeriformes: Sturnidae) from Pakistan. International Journal of Entomology and Nematology, 4, 93 - 107.