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Menacanthus palmai, a new species of chewing louse (Menoponidae: Amblycera: Phthiraptera) from the Coturnix coromandelica

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The new species Menacanthus palmai collected from Coturnix coromandelica (Gmelin), in Rampur district (UP), India, is described and illustrated. Morphologically the new species is close to M. abdominalis from Coturnix coturnix but differs in having long pointed ventral processes on the postero-medial angles of the second to fifth pleurites. Furthermore, these two species also differ in the number of tergal and sternal abdominal setae, and the morphology of the male genitalia. Another species, Menacanthus pallipes from C. chinensis, does not have ventral processes on the postero-medial angles of pleurites.

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Abbreviations

TW:

Temple width

HL:

Head length

PW:

Prothorax width

PL:

Prothorax length

MW:

Metathorax width

ML:

Meso-Metathorax length

AL:

Abdominal length

AW (IV):

Abdominal width of segment IV

TL:

Total length

ML:

Male genitalia length

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All measurements are given as arithmetic means (range) in mm.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are indebted to the Principal, Government Raza PG College, Rampur (UP) for providing laboratory facilities; to the Chief Wild Life Warden of UP (India) for permission to catch the birds, and to the CSIR, New Delhi for providing financial support to Dr. A. K. Saxena in the form of project no. 37/(1298)/07/EMR II. Also, we thank Ricardo L. Palma (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, N. Z.) for his revision of our first draft and to Vincent S. Smith (Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, London, U.K.) for providing the images of M. pallipes.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Government Raza Postgraduate College, Rampur, 244901, UP, India

    Nayanci Bansal, Aftab Ahmad, Gaurav Arya, Vikram Khan & Arun Kumar Saxena

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Bansal, N., Ahmad, A., Arya, G. et al. Menacanthus palmai, a new species of chewing louse (Menoponidae: Amblycera: Phthiraptera) from the Coturnix coromandelica . J Parasit Dis 37, 276–280 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-012-0179-z

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