Ornithobius bucephalus ( Giebel, 1874 )

González-Acuña, Daniel, Moreno, Lucila, Cicchino, Armando, Mironov, Sergey & Kinsella, Mike, 2010, Checklist of the parasites of the black-necked swan, Cygnus melanocoryphus (Aves: Anatidae), with new records from Chile, Zootaxa 2637, pp. 55-68 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.198468
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6209643
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scientific name	Ornithobius bucephalus ( Giebel, 1874 )
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Ornithobius bucephalus ( Giebel, 1874)

Site of infection: mostly wing feathers: primaries, secondaries, wing coverts; also in pterylae surrounding this area: scapulars, interscapulars and upper breast.

Localities: Buenos Aires Zoological Garden ( Argentina), London Zoological Garden ( England). References: Castro and Cicchino (1996), Arnold (2005).

Comments: Probably these records are due to secondary infestations from its true host, C. olor because both swan species are frequently confined in the same reduced habitats in Zoological Gardens where they breed freely, as we observed repeatedly in Argentina.

References

Arnold, D. (2005) Review of the Genus Ornithobius (Phthiraptera: Ichnocera: Philopteridae), with Descriptions of Two New Species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 78, 158 - 166.

Castro, D. del C. & Cicchino, A. (1996) Report on a collection of Mallophaga (Insecta) from Lake Pellegrini, Rio Negro Province, Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 44, 371 - 376.

Giebel, C. (1874) Insecta epizoa. Otto Wigand (ed), Liepzig, 308 pp.