Menacanthus gonophaeus ( Burmeister, 1838 )

Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, Zootaxa 5069 (1), pp. 1-80 : 31

Menacanthus gonophaeus ( Burmeister, 1838)

Host: Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Ref.: Balát (1977); Straka (1987) as Menacanthus laticeps Blagoveshtchensky, 1948 ; this paper.

Locations: Stará Bystrica, 5 Jan. 1982 (Straka Coll., AKMM); Zlatná na Ostrove , 20 Jan. 2001 (Krištofík Coll., VETUNI) .

Notes: Balát (1977) recorded Menacanthus laticeps —now a junior synonym of M. gonophaeus (see Price 1977: 208)—from Slovakia without a host association. However, based on other associations of Menacanthus gonophaeus with Corvus frugilegus , we can assume that this is the host of Balát’s record. Furthermore, we confirm this host-louse association as recorded by Straka (1987) and from our recent material. Straka (1987) recorded the location as “Krpeľany”, but it is most likely an error, because in Straka’s note on label of an available slide the location is given as “Stará Bystrica”.