Myrsidea pitangi Price, Hellenthal & Dalgleish, 2005

Kolencik, Stanislav, Sychra, Oldrich, Papousek, Ivo, Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Literak, Ivan, 2018, New species and additional data on the chewing louse genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from wild Neotropical Passeriformes (Aves), Zootaxa 4418 (5), pp. 401-431 : 429

Myrsidea pitangi Price, Hellenthal & Dalgleish, 2005

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Myrsidea pitangi Price, Hellenthal & Dalgleish, 2005: 6 , figs 4–6.

Type host. Pitangus sulphuratus (Linnaeus, 1766) — great kiskadee.

Type locality. Tumpuna Rd , Trinidad & Tobago.

Material examined. Ex Pitangus sulphuratus : 1♂ Los Tres Gigantes Biological Station in the Paraguayan Pantanal, Paraguay (20°04'S, 50°09'W), 7 September 2012, I. Literak ( MMBC) ; 1♀ Atlántida, Tela , Lancetilla Botanical Garden, Honduras (15°44'N, 87°27'W), 13 August 2014, I. Literak ( MMBC) .

Remarks. Myrsidea pitangi was known from Trinidad & Tobago and Costa Rica, and our records are the first from Honduras, Paraguay and Perú. Our specimens differ from the original description of M. pitangi by setal counts and dimensions, as follows [data from Price et al. (2005) are in parentheses]:

Female (n = 1). Metanotum not enlarged, with 7 (10–11) marginal setae. Tergal setae: I, 8 (10–11); II, 11 (12– 15); V, 11 (13–14); VII, 9 (6–7). Anterior margin of sternal plate II with a medial notch. Sternal setae: III, 34 (25– 31); VII, 19 (13–15); Anal fringe with 41 (42–46) dorsal setae. Dimensions: HL, 0.39 (0.35–0.38); PW, 0.34 (0.35– 0.37); MW, 0.50 (0.53–0.55); AWIV, 0.68 (0.73–0.79); ANW, 0.26 (0.28–0.29); TL, 1.72 (1.76–1.79).

Male (n =1). Tergal setae: I, 7 (8–11). Sternal setae: VII, 18 (15–16); VIII, 9 (7). Genital sac sclerite as in Fig. 40 . Dimensions: PW, 0.30 (0.32–0.34); GSL, 0.12 (about 0.10 long).

Figures

FIGURES 30–40. Male genital sac sclerites: 30–34, Myrsidea capeki n. sp.; 35, Myrsidea pachyramphi n. sp.; 36, Myrsidea contopi from Leptopogon amaurocephalus from Perú; 37, same but from Paraguay; 38–39, Myrsidea leptopogoni n. sp.; 40, Myrsidea pitangi from Pitangus sulphuratusfrom Paraguay.