Bovicola limbatus ( Gervais, 1844 )

Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, Zootaxa 5263 (1), pp. 40-60 : 46

Bovicola limbatus ( Gervais, 1844)

Trichodectes limbatus Gervais, 1844: 313 , pl. 48: fig. 4.

Trichodectes climax major Piaget, 1885: 86 , pl. 9: fig. 5.

Trichodectes madagascariensis Mjöberg, 1910: 64 , figs 38–39.

Trichodectes painei Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914: 90 , figs 1A–D.

Bovicola limbatus ( Gervais, 1844) ; Ewing, 1929: 123.

Bovidoecus painei ( Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914) ; Bedford 1929: 519.

Bovicola painei ( Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914) ; Bedford 1932b: 362.

Bovicola major (Piaget) ; Emerson 1940: 105.

Bovicola sachtlebeni Kéler, 1937: 314 , figs 1–2.

Bovicola wernecki Kéler, 1937: 317 .

Damalinia (Bovicola) limbata ( Gervais, 1844) ; Hopkins 1949: 504, 533.

Bovicola limbatus ( Gervais, 1844) ; Werneck 1950: 62.

Damalinia limbata ( Gervais, 1844) ; Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37.

Bovicola (Bovicola) limbatus ( Gervais, 1844) ; Price et al. 2003: 253.

Type host: Capra hircus angorensis (Shaw, 1800) —Angora goat.

Type locality: Not given in the original description.

Malaysian host: Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Malaysian locality: “West Malaysia ”, Peninsular Malaysia ( Mustaffa-Babjee 1969).

Geographical distribution: Worldwide, except Antarctica.

Remarks: Bovicola limbatus and B. caprae and both common parasites of goats ( Durden, 2019) and morphologically similar. Sebei et al. (2004) separated the males of Bovicola limbatus and B. caprae by the morphology of their gonopods (e.g. presence of terminal flaps in B. caprae , but absent in B. limbatus ). In Peninsular Malaysia, only one record of B. limbatus has been reported by Mustaffa-Babjee (1969); however, considering that there are no figures and no mention of genitalia or gonopods of the male, it is not possible determine with certainty the species that Mustaffa-Babjee (1969) examined. Further studies are needed to investigate the occurrence and prevalence of B. limbatus and B. caprae in Malaysia.