Malacopteron (Timaliidae), Eyton, 1839

Paperna, Ilan, Keong, Malcolm Soh Chu & May, Charlotte Yap Aye, 2008, Haemosporozoan Parasites Found In Birds In Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak And Java, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (2), pp. 211-243 : 224-225

Malacopteron (Timaliidae)

Haemoproteus wenyoni Mello, Sa, Sousa, Dias & Norontha, 1916 (Table 8)

Malacopteron albogulare (Blyth) ; Malaysia: Sarawak.

Malacopteron cinereum Eyton ; Indonesia: Java, Lingoasri mountain primary forest, 2002.

Malacopteron magnirostre (Moore) ; Malaysia: Pasoh, 1998; Johor, 2003.

Type host. – Orthotomus sutorius ( Nova Goa, India) .

Remarks. – Infection was scanty in all hosts found infected. All detected gametocytes conform in shape and dimensions and their impact on the infected erythrocytes. There are some discrepancies in size, but not in shape, from the ones described from the type host, Ort. sutorius . The pigment load is scantier or even absent (an artefact?) in some gametocytes from Malacopteron . The erythrocyte sizes given for Ort. sutorius (by Bennettt et al., 1991) are somewhat larger than in our data for both species of Malacopteron and Ort. sepium (callibration error?). See vide in Ort. sepium for more detailed description and comparative dimensions.