Menacanthus sp.

Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, Zootaxa 5069 (1), pp. 1-80 : 33

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Menacanthus sp.

Host: Dendrocopos syriacus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) .

Ref.: Balát (1956) as Menacanthus sp. ? dryobates ( Eichler, 1953c) .

Location: Gabčíkovo, 21 Oct. 1954 ( Balát 1956).

Notes: Balát (1956) recorded Menacanthus cf. dryobates from Dendrocopos syriacus , but this louse species is a junior synonym of Menacanthus pici and there has not been any further record of Menacanthus from D. syriacus (see Price et al. 2003: 366). This may be a new host-louse association for M. pici , a species that occurs on other 26 species of woodpeckers ( Price et al. 2003: 124), or it may be and accidental straggler. Unfortunately, there are no specimens of Menacanthus from D. syriacus in the Balát Collection to confirm this record at the species level.

References

Balat, F. (1956) Prehled vsenek (Mallophaga), zjistenych na ptacich a savcich Slovenska. [Overview of chewing lice (Mallo- phaga) from birds and mammals from Slovakia]. Sbornik krajskeho muzea v Trnave, 2, 56 - 77. [in Czech]

Eichler, W. (1953 c) Notulae Mallophagologicae. XII. Neue Menacanthinae. Beitrage zur Vogelkunde, 3 (3 - 4), 166 - 183. [in German]

Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A., Palma, R. L., Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. (2003) The chewing lice: world checklist and biologi- cal overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, x + 501 pp.