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Sporophila corvina Sclater

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Description

Host: Sporophila corvina (Sclater) – Variable Seedeater

One chewing louse species was found on this host:

Ricinus diffusus (Kellogg, 1896)

Physostomum diffusus Kellogg, 1896

Type host. Passerculus sandwichensis (Gmelin)

Material studied. 2 females ex Sporophila corvina, COSTA RICA: Hitoy Cerere BR, Provincia Limỏn (9°40’N, 85°05’W), 20 August 2004, Literák, Č apek & Havlíček coll. Deposited in INBio –O. Sychra CR71.

Remarks. One of 29 birds examined was parasitised by R. diffusus. This is the first record of a chewing louse species from Sporophila corvina.

Family Emberizidae

Arremon aurantiirostris Lafresnaye Myrsidea aurantiirostris Price & Dalgleish, 2007 Sporophila corvina (Sclater)

** Ricinus diffusus (Kellogg, 1896)

Family Cardinalidae

Caryothraustes poliogaster (Du Bus de Gisignies) Myrsidea poliogasteri Sychra, n. sp. Cyanocompsa cyanoides (Lafresnaye) ** Myrsidea sp.1

Saltator maximus (Müller)

** Myrsidea sp.2

Family Thraupidae

Tangara larvata (Du Bus de Gisignies) Myrsidea larvatae Sychra, n. sp.

Euphonia gouldi Sclater

** Myrsidea violaceae Price & Dalgleish, 2006 Habia fuscicauda (Cabanis)

Myrsidea fuscicaudae Price & Dalgleish, 2006 Ramphocelus passerinii Bonaparte Myrsidea fusca (Carriker, 1903)

Tachyphonus luctuosus d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye ** Myrsidea spizae Price & Dalgleish, 2006 ** Ricinus sp.

Tachyphonus delattrii Lafresnaye ** Myrsidea sp.3

** Machaerilaemus laticorpus (Carriker, 1903) Mitrospingus cassinii (Lawrence) ** Menacanthus eurysternus (Burmeiter, 1838) Myrsidea mitrospingi Price & Dalgleish, 2006 ** Ricinus sp.

Notes

Published as part of Č, Ř Á, 2007, Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from buntings, cardinals and tanagers (Passeriformes: Emberizidae, Cardinalidae, Thraupidae) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of two new species of the genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 1631 on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179415

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A4AC07FF91FFE8FF31EC84FE9A85BF

Related works

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.179415 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF9DD47FFF90FFEAFFA6EA43FFBD8036 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03A4AC07FF91FFE8FF31EC84FE9A85BF (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119377833 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/48842/taxon/03A4AC07FF91FFE8FF31EC84FE9A85BF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Sclater
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Emberizidae
Genus
Sporophila
Species
corvina
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Price, R. D. & Dalgleish, R. C. (2007) Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Emberizidae (Passeriformes), with descriptions of 13 new species. Zootaxa, 1467, 1 - 18
  • Price, R. D. & Dalgleish, R. C. (2006) Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), with descriptions of 18 new species. Zootaxa, 1174, 1 - 25.
  • Carriker, M. A., Jr. (1903) Mallophaga from birds of Costa Rica, Central America. University of Nebraska Studies, 3 (2), 123 - 197, 9 pls.