Melozone taciturni

Price, Roger D. & Dalgleish, Robert C., 2007, Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Emberizidae (Passeriformes), with descriptions of 13 new species, Zootaxa 1467, pp. 1-18 : 7

taciturni species group

The six species of this group are characterized as having both sexes with strongly developed hypopharyngeal sclerites, the females with lightly spiculate posterior margin of subgenital plate, and the males with a slender strongly arched sternite II ( Figs. 19, 25 , 27, 32 , 38 ) and genital sac sclerite tapered posteriorly, with dark medioposterior line ( Figs. 21, 24 , 29, 33, 35 ).

Figures

FIGURES 16 – 25. 16 – 17. Myrsidea sinaloae. 16. Female metanotum and dorsal abdomen. 17. Male genital sac sclerite. 18 – 22. M. taciturni. 18. Male metanotum and dorsoventral abdomen. 19. Male sternite II. 20. Female sternite II. 21. Male genital sac sclerite. 22. Female metanotum and dorsoventral abdomen. 23 – 25. M. aurantiirostris. 23. Female metanotum and dorsal abdomen. 24. Male genital sac sclerite. 25. Male sternite II.

FIGURES 26 – 36. 26 – 30. Myrsidea brunneinuchi. 26. Male ventral terminalia. 27. Male metasternum and sternites I – II. 28. Female sternite II. 29. Male genital sac sclerite. 30. Female metanotum and dorsal abdomen. 31 – 33. M. gularis. 31. Male dorsoventral terminalia. 32. Male sternite II. 33. Male genital sac sclerite. 34 – 36. M. conirostris. 34. Female metanotum and dorsal abdomen. 35. Male genital sac sclerite. 36. Male ventral terminalia.

FIGURES 37 – 44. 37 – 38. Myrsidea marini. 37. Female metanotum and dorsoventral abdomen. 38. Male sternite II. 39. M. serini female metanotum, dorsal abdomen, and ventral terminalia. 40 – 44. M. anoxanthi. 40. Female hypopharyngeal sclerites. 41. Female metasternum and sternites I – III. 42. Male metanotum and dorsal abdomen. 43. Male sternite II. 44. Male genital sac sclerites.