Myrsidea serini

Price, Roger D. & Dalgleish, Robert C., 2007, Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Emberizidae (Passeriformes), with descriptions of 13 new species, Zootaxa 1467, pp. 1-18 : 12

serini species group

The three species of this group are characterized as having both sexes with weakly developed hypopharyngeal sclerites ( Fig. 40 ), the females with a strongly spiculate posterior margin of the subgenital plate ( Fig. 39 ), and the males with a well-developed sternite II ( Fig. 43 ) and unusual genital sac sclerites ( Fig. 44 ).

Figures

FIGURES 37 – 44. 37 – 38. Myrsidea marini. 37. Female metanotum and dorsoventral abdomen. 38. Male sternite II. 39. M. serini female metanotum, dorsal abdomen, and ventral terminalia. 40 – 44. M. anoxanthi. 40. Female hypopharyngeal sclerites. 41. Female metasternum and sternites I – III. 42. Male metanotum and dorsal abdomen. 43. Male sternite II. 44. Male genital sac sclerites.