Goniocotes gallinae ( De Geer, 1778 )

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 : 53

Goniocotes gallinae ( De Geer, 1778)

Host: Gallus gallus ( Linnaeus, 1758) —captive bird.

Ref.: this paper.

Location: Kláštor pod Znievom, 25 Apr. 1977 (Straka Coll., AKMM) .

Note: Although the occurrence of this louse species if probably well known among veterinarians and hen breeders, this is the first record of Goniocotes gallinae from Slovakia. Specimens in the Straka’s collection are mounted partially together with Menopon gallinae and Menacanthus stramineus on the same slides reported by Straka (1987) as Menacanthus sp.