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Bovicola bovis

  • 1. Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6269 - 8390
  • 2. Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6269 - 8390 & Institute of Pathology, Laboratory and Forensic Medicine (I-PPerForM), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2254 - 2743
  • 3. Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4493 - 0395

Description

Bovicola bovis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pediculus bovis Linnaeus, 1758: 611.

Pediculus tauri Linnaeus, 1761: 476. Unnecessary nomen novum for Pediculus bovis Linnaeus, 1758.

Trichodectes scalaris Nitzsch, 1818: 296. Unnecessary nomen novum for Pediculus bovis Linnaeus, 1758.

Trichodectes bovis Linnaeus, 1758 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 69.

Bovicola bovis (Linnaeus, 1758); Ewing, 1929: 123.

Bovidoecus bovis (Linnaeus, 1758); Bedford 1929: 519.

Damalinia (Bovicola) bovis (Linnaeus, 1758); Hopkins 1949: 527.

Bovicola bovis (Linnaeus, 1758); Werneck 1950: 63.

Damalinia bovis (Linnaeus, 1758); Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37.

Bovicola (Bovicola) bovis (Linnaeus, 1758); Price et al. 2003: 253.

Type host: Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 —Domestic cattle.

Type locality: Not given, but Emerson & Price (1975) noted it was in Europe.

Malaysian host: Bos taurus.

Malaysian locality “West Malaysia ”, Peninsular Malaysia (Mustaffa-Babjee 1969).

Geographical distribution: Worldwide, except Antarctica.

Remarks: Bovicola bovis is the only chewing louse parasitic on domestic cattle. Mustaffa-Babjee (1969) recorded B. bovis from cattle in Peninsular Malaysia, but without specifying the actual locality. Considering that studies of B. bovis in Malaysia are scarce, it is imperative to investigate the prevalence of this species from livestock, as B. bovis is known to affect cattle hide quality and cause a number of deteriorating symptoms, such as anemia and malnutrition (Durden 2019).

Notes

Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, pp. 40-60 in Zootaxa 5263 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7797797

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Trichodectidae
Genus
Bovicola
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
bovis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bovicola bovis (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Kazim, Houssaini, Tappe & Heo, 2023

References

  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Volume 1. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, iv + 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
  • Linnaeus, C. (1761) Pediculi. In: Fauna Suecica Sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholmiae. Pp. 475 - 479.
  • Nitzsch, C. L. (1818) Die Familien und Gattungen der Theierinsekten (Insecta epizoica); als ein Prodromus einer Naturgeschichte derselben. E. F. Germar's Magazin der Entomologie, 3, 261 - 318.
  • Harrison, L. (1916) The genera and species of Mallophaga. Parasitology, 9 (1), 1 - 156. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 102856
  • Ewing, H. E. (1929) A manual of external parasites. Bailliere Tindall & Cox, London. xvi + 225 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3271887
  • Bedford, G. A. H. (1929) Anoplura (Siphunculata and Mallophaga) from South African hosts. 15 th Annual report of the Director of Veterinary Services, Union of South Africa, 501 - 549.
  • Hopkins, G. H. E. (1949) The host-associations of the lice of mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 119 (2), 387 - 604. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1949. tb 00888. x
  • Werneck, F. L. (1950) Os Malofagos de Mamiferos. Parte II: Ischnocera (continuac " o de Trichodectidae) e Rhyncophthirina. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 207 pp.
  • Mustaffa-Babjee, A. (1969) Lice and fleas of animals in Malaysia. Kajian Veterinaire, 2, 37.
  • Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A. & Palma, R. L. (2003) World checklist of chewing lice with host associations and keys to families and genera. Pp. 1 - 448. In: Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A., Palma, R. L., Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. The chewing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. x + 501 pp.
  • Emerson, K. C. & Price, R. D. (1975) Mallophaga of Venezuelan mammals. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin. Biological Series, 20 (3), 1 - 77. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 5667
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