Menacanthus eurysternus ( Burmeister, 1838 )

Najer, Tomas, Sychra, Oldrich, Hung, Nguyen Manh, Capek, Miroslav, Podzemny, Petr & Literak, Ivan, 2012, Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from wild passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in northern Vietnam, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3530, pp. 59-73 : 72

Menacanthus eurysternus ( Burmeister, 1838)

Type host: Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material studied. 2 males, 2 females, VIETNAM: the botanical garden, Cuc Phuong, Province of Ninh Binh (20°15' N 105°42' E), 7–8 February 2010, coll. I. Literak in IEBR VAST (O. Sychra V47 and V48).

Remarks. Menacanthus eurysternus is a species of chewing louse known from a very large number of hosts ( Price 1975; Price et al. 2003: 119), and is the only species known from the family Zosteropidae . Nineteen of 42 birds examined were parasitized by Menacanthus eurysternus .