Myrsidea macronoi Price et al. (2006)

Ramon, Madrid, Soto, Old, Sychra, rich, Benedick, Suzan, Edwards, David P., Efeykin, Boris D., Fandrem, Marte, Haugaasen, Torbjørn, Teterina, Anastasia, Tomassi, Suzanne & Tolstenkov, Oleg, 2020, Diversity and host associations of Myrsidea chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) in the tropical rainforest of Malaysian Borneo, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 13, pp. 231-247 : 237

3.1.6. Myrsidea macronoi Price et al. (2006)

( Fig. 5E ).

Myrsidea macronoi Price et al. (2006): 371 . Type host: Macronus gularis = Mixornis gularis ( Horsfield, 1822) – Pin-striped Tit-babbler ( Timaliidae ).

Material studied. 1♀, 16, MALAYSIA: YSFMA in Sabah (4 ◦ 58 ′ N, 117 ◦ 4 ′ E), ex Stachyris poliocephala ( Temminck, 1836) – Gray-headed Babbler ( Timaliidae ), 23.vi.2015 (Ram´on Soto Madrid) ( MMBC).

Remarks. Our specimens differ from the redescription of M. macronoi presented by Price et al. (2006) by setal counts and dimensions as follows [setal counts and dimensions mentioned by Price et al. (2006) are in parentheses]:

Female (n = 1). Tergal setae: VI, 12 (9–11).

Dimensions: MW, 0.41 (0.43–0.47); AW, 0.60 (0.62–0.64); ANW, 0.21 (0.22–0.24); TL, 1.45 (1.47–1.58).

Male (n = 1). Metanotum with 3 (4) marginal setae; metasternal plate with 6 (4) setae.

Tergal setae: I, 3 (2); IV, 13 (10–12); VI, 13 (8–11); VIII, 6 (4). Sternal setae: III, 14 (11–13); V, 34 (29–32); VII, 28 (18–27).

Dimensions: HL, 0.26 (0.27–0.30).

There is very simple drawing of male genital sac sclerite in the original description (see Fig. 8 in Price et al., 2006), so we redrew it from another view also here to see its variability ( Fig. 5E ).

Figures

Fig. 5. Myrsidea victoriae sp.n. A–D, dorso-ventral view of female thorax and abdomen (A), head shape (B), male metasternal plate and sternites I–II (C), male genital sac sclerite (D); Myrsidea macronoi E, male genital sac sclerite.

Fig. 8. Bayesian phylogeny of Bornean Myrsidea studied based on analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and elongation factor-1α (EF- 1α) genes. Outgroup taxon was removed from this figure for readability. Hosts belong to family Pycnonotydae are indicated on the right.