Menacanthus kalatitar, Ansari, 1951

Naz, Saima, Najer, Tomas & Gustafsson, Daniel R., 2020, An annotated list of the species of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) described by Mohammad A. - R. Ansari, Zootaxa 4809 (3), pp. 401-448 : 414-415

Uchida kalatitar Ansari, 1951

Uchida kalatitar Ansari, 1951: 137 , figs 4a–e.

Current status: Menacanthus kalatitar ( Ansari, 1951) ; Hopkins & Clay 1953: 439.

Type host: Francolinus francolinus asiae Bonaparte.

Type locality: Faisalabad [as Lyallpur, Punjab], Pakistan .

Type material: One slide deposited in the NHML [slide NHML 010658300], with collection data consistent with those in Ansari’s (1951) description and labelled as “ TYPE ”, bears four lice, including one male marked with black ink arrows on the coverslip. However, Ansari (1951: 138) listed only three males as types, the holotype mounted on one slide and two paratypes on another slide. If the NMHL specimens are the types, then they must have been remounted after they were acquired by the museum, but we have no evidence to prove it. The three unmarked speci-

mens are one male and two nymphs, and it is possible that the male is one of the paratypes. However, as the two paratype males were originally mounted on a separate slide, they may be lost, in which case, besides the arrowed male, the other three lice on slide NHML010658300 are not types .