Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand abstracts
Philopterus novaezealandiae, a new species of chewing louse
(Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from the kokako (Passeriformes:
Callaeidae)
Ricardo L. Palma1, Roger D. Price2
1Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467,
Wellington, New Zealand
2Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St Paul,
Minnesota 55108, United States of America
The new species
Philopterus novaezealandiae is described from three
samples of lice collected from the two subspecies of kokako (
Callaeas
cinerea (Gmelin)). The possible origin of
P. novaezealandiae is
discussed. This is the first louse species to be described from an extant
species of the passerine host family Callaeidae, the New Zealand wattlebirds.
Keywords Phthiraptera; Philopteridae;
Philopterus; lice; new species; Callaeidae; kokako
(c) Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand,
Volume 30, Number 3, September 2000, pp 293-297
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