Menacanthus dudiyalatora 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 : 409

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4345024
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scientific name	Menacanthus dudiyalatora Ansari, 1951
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Treatment

Menacanthus dudiyalatora Ansari, 1951: 143 , figs 7a–k.

Current status: Menacanthus camelinus (Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1874); Price 1977: 210, figs 7–9.

Type host: Lanius excubitor lahtora (Sykes) .

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

Type material: Ansari (1951: 145) listed only three type specimens: the holotype female, the allotype male and one paratype male. However, in the NHML there are 13 lice mounted on three slides, all labelled as “ Menacanthus dudiyalatora ”, as follows: (1) one labelled as “ TYPE ” [slide NHML010658068 View Materials ] containing one female (the holotype), one male and three nymphs; (2) a slide labelled as “ PARATYPE ” [slide NHML010658069 View Materials ] containing one female and two males; and (3) a second slide labelled as “ PARATYPE ” [slide NHML010658070 View Materials ] containing one female, two males and two nymphs. Obviously, some of the above specimens are not paratypes , but it is not possible to ascertain which two males are those designated by Ansari as allotype and paratype.