During the 20 th century, the taxonomy and classification of chewing lice (Psocodea,
Phthiraptera) was under the influence of Fahrenholz's rule, which states that louse and host …

Abstract The parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the New Zealand Subregion are all
listed and annotated with data from both literature records and collections. The current …

Closely related chewing lice in the Philopterus-complex are typically morphologically
homogeneous, with the most significant differences often being in the male genitalia …

Compared with Europe and the Americas, the ectoparasites of African birds are poorly
understood, despite the avian fauna being relatively well known. Notably, previous studies …

The crested ibis has survived a dramatic population decline during the twentieth century,
declining from a range across much of China, Japan, the Korean peninsula and nearby …

Many parasites are intimately tied to a single host species, and thus likely to go extinct if their
host vanished, making the parasites and hosts co-endangered. As endangered host species …

The chewing louse genus Colpocephalum parasitizes nearly a dozen distantly related
orders of birds. Such a broad host distribution is relatively unusual in lice. However, the …

The species and subspecies of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera)
parasitic on Chilean birds are listed and annotated, based on records published until …

ABSTRACT Babblers (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae, Pellorneidae, Timaliidae) are
parasitized by more genera of lice of the Brueelia complex than any other group of …

The lice of the Oxylipeurus-complex parasitising the turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, belong to a
previously undescribed genus. In this paper, we describe this genus as Valimia new genus …