Menacanthus nogoma Uchida, 1926

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 : 62

Menacanthus nogoma Uchida, 1926

Type host: Calliope calliope (Pallas, 1776)

Material studied. 3 males, 1 female, VIETNAM: the botanical garden, Cuc Phuong, Province of Ninh Binh ( 20°15' N 105°42' E), 7 February 2010, coll. I. Literak, in IEBR VAST (O. Sychra V32); 1 male, 1 female with the same data as the previous sample but in MMBC (O. Sychra V33).

Remarks. This is the new host-louse associations for Menacanthus nogoma that was previously known from 7 species of birds from the families Muscicapidae and Motacillidae , including 5 species of the genus Luscinia ( Price et al. 2003) , now placed into the genera Calliope , Larvivora , and Tarsiger ( Clements et al. 2011) . Two of 21 birds examined were parasitized by Menacanthus nogoma .