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Menacanthus safedgal Ansari 1951

  • 1. Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czechia.
  • 2. Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czechia. & najer @ af. czu. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4768 - 7906
  • 3. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, 105 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510260, China. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8868 - 8310

Description

Menacanthus safedgal Ansari, 1951

Menacanthus safedgal Ansari, 1951: 141, figs 6a–d.

Current status: Menacanthus eurysternus (Burmeister, 1838); Price 1975: 619, figs 1–9.

Type host: Molpastes leucogenys leucogenys (Gray) = Pycnonotus leucogenys (Gray).

Type locality: Kullu [as Kulu], India.

Type material: Holotype male [slide NHML010658143] deposited in the NHML. This slide, labelled as “ TYPE ”, contains two males, one circled and assumed to be the holotype, but Ansari (1951: 143) only listed the holotype. Therefore, the other male has no type status.

Notes

Published as part of Naz, Saima, Najer, Tomas & Gustafsson, Daniel R., 2020, An annotated list of the species of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) described by Mohammad A. - R. Ansari, pp. 401-448 in Zootaxa 4809 (3) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3936752

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHML, TYPE
Family
Menoponidae
Genus
Menacanthus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
NHML010658143
Order
Phthiraptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ansari
Species
safedgal
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Menacanthus safedgal Ansari, 1951 sec. Naz, Najer & Gustafsson, 2020

References

  • Ansari, M. A. R. (1951) Mallophaga (Amblycera) infesting birds in the Panjab (India). Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, 17 (2), 127 - 203.
  • Burmeister, H. (1838) Mallophaga. In: Handbuch der Entomologie. 2 (1). Enslin, Berlin, pp. 418 - 443.
  • Price, R. D. (1975) The Menacanthus eurysternus complex (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) of the Passeriformes and Piciformes (Aves). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 68 (4), 617 - 622. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 68.4.617