Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand abstracts

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New synonymies and host records for lice of the genus Menacanthus (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Passeriformes (Aves)

Ricardo L. Palma*, Roger D. Price**, Ronald A. Hellenthal⁺

Twenty new synonymies are proposed and 42 new host associations are given for chewing lice of the genus Menacanthus Neumann, 1912, parasitic on members of the avian order Passeriformes.

Keywords: lice; Phthiraptera; Menoponidae; Menacanthus; new synonymies; new host records; Passeriformes

(c) Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand,

Volume 28, Number 2, June 1998, pp 309-320

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