Myrsidea mitrospingi Price and Dalgleish, 2006

Price, Roger D. & Dalgleish, Robert C., 2006, Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), with descriptions of 18 new species, Zootaxa 1174, pp. 1-25 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.2645778

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509540

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Myrsidea mitrospingi Price and Dalgleish
status

sp. nov.

Myrsidea mitrospingi Price and Dalgleish , new species (Fig. 30)

Type host. Mitrospingus cassinii (Lawrence) , Dusky­faced Tanager.

Female (1). Metanotum not enlarged, with 10 marginal setae. Metasternal plate with 6 setae. Abdomen (Fig. 30) with all tergites of approximately same size, with straight posterior margins. Tergal setae: I–II, 14–15; III–VI, 17–18; VII, 13; VIII, 10. Postspiracular setae very long to extremely long on all segments. Sternal setae: II, 19; III, 24; IV–VI, 35– 38; VII, 22; VIII–IX, 21. Dimensions: TW, 0.49; HL, 0.33; PW, 0.31; MW, 0.48; AWIV, 0.65; ANW, 0.24; TL, 1.65.

Male. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype female, ex M. cassinii , COSTA RICA: Punta Cocles Hotel , 10 km E Pto Viejo, Limon, 24–25 Apr 1992, R. L. Fisher 222.

Remarks. The comparison of M. mitrospingi to the anatomically similar M. spizae has been given above.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Phthiraptera

Family

Menoponidae

Genus

Myrsidea

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