Myrsidea satbhai 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 : 412-413

Myrsidea satbhai Ansari, 1951

Myrsidea satbhai Ansari, 1951: 178 , figs 20a–h.

Current status: Myrsidea satbhai Ansari, 1951 .

Type host: Turdoides terricolor terricolor (Hodgson) = Turdoides striata (Dumont)

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

Type material: Holotype female (labelled as “ TYPE ”) deposited in the the NHML [slide NHML 010661099]. There are three further slides of M. satbhai in the NHML, each labelled as “ PARATYPE ” [ NHML 010661102, 010661103, 010661104] including a total of 10 lice with locality data in agreement with Ansari’s (1951: 180) text, but without the date. Considering that Ansari (1951: 180) only listed the holotype, the allotype male and a paratype female, it is obvious that seven of those “ paratypes ” have no type status. One male, with the note “Fig. d genitalia” written in pencil, may be the allotype, but it cannot be confirmed because there is at least another male in the series. It is likely that the mislabeling of this large series as paratypes happened during the study made by Tandan & Clay (1971: 216) who, in addition to the holotype and allotype, listed a total of four females, three males, and one nymph as paratypes of M. satbhai .