Myrsidea ahmedalii Bughio et al., 2018

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Myrsidea ahmedalii Bughio et al., 2018

Myrsidea ahmedalii Bughio et al., 2018: 94 .

Type host. Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766) —common myna.

Type locality. Sindh Province, Pakistan .

Remarks. The lack of a detailed redescription of the type series of Myrsidea invadens (see above) makes it difficult to evaluate whether M. ahmedalii is a different species or a junior synonym. The original description of M. ahmedalii includes a comparison with M. invadens , but the characters used are not those found in the original description of M. invadens , so it is difficult to know what Bughio et al. (2018) actually examined to compare against their new species ( Table 4 ). The correct status of Myrsidea ahmedalii will be known only when the type series of these two species can be compared with each other.