Menacanthus leistidis Cicchino, 1984

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 33-34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766658
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Menacanthus leistidis Cicchino, 1984
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Menacanthus leistidis Cicchino, 1984 View in CoL

Menacanthus leistidis Cicchino, 1984: 327 View in CoL , figs 1–6.

Menacanthus leistidis Cicchino, 1984 View in CoL ; Price et al. 2003: 122.

Menacanthus leistidis Cicchino, 1984 View in CoL ; González-Acuña et al. 2006c: 212, 214.

Menacanthus leistidis Cicchino, 1984 View in CoL ; Soto et al. 2013: 1317.

Holotype ♀ in MDLP (see Abrahamovich et al. 2006: 46).

Type host: Sturnella superciliaris (Bonaparte, 1850) .

Chilean host: Sturnella loyca loyca (Molina, 1782) .

Other host: Sturnella defilippii (Bonaparte, 1851) .

Chilean localities: Punitaqui: Region IV; Las Cabras (Cachapoal): Region VI; Biobío: Region VIII.

Geographic distribution: North, Central and South America.

Chilean references: González-Acuña et al. (2006c); Soto et al. (2013).

Other significant references: Cicchino & Castro (1998a: 101); Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: Despite the wide geographical range covered by the hosts of Menacanthus leistidis , there have been only a few records of this louse from Chile and Argentina.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Psocodea
Family	Menoponidae
Genus	Menacanthus