Myrsidea flaviventris Price, Hellenthal & Dalgleish, 2005

Kolencik, Stanislav, Sychra, Oldrich, Papousek, Ivo, Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Literak, Ivan, 2018, New species and additional data on the chewing louse genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from wild Neotropical Passeriformes (Aves), Zootaxa 4418 (5), pp. 401-431 : 424

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.1
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scientific name	Myrsidea flaviventris Price, Hellenthal & Dalgleish, 2005
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Myrsidea flaviventris Price, Hellenthal & Dalgleish, 2005: 8 .

Type host. Tolmomyias flaviventris (Wied, 1831) —yellow-breasted flycatcher.

Type locality. Melajo Forest , Sangre Grande, Trinidad & Tobago.

Material examined. Ex Tolmomyias sulphurescens (Spix, 1825) —yellow-olive flycatcher: 1♀, Atlántida, Tela, Lancetilla Botanical Garden, Honduras (15°44'N, 87°27'W), 10 August 2014, I. Literak ( MMBC). GoogleMaps

Remarks. This is the first record of Myrsidea from Tolmomyias sulphurescens . Until now, Myrsidea flaviventris was known from Trinidad & Tobago and Perú (Price et al. 2005), and this is the first record from Honduras. Our specimen differs from the original description of M. flaviventris by setal counts and dimensions, as follows [data from Price et al. (2005) are in parentheses]:

Female (n = 1). Tergal setae: II, 15 (9–11); V, 12 (10–11). Sternal setae: II, in total 17 (24–25) medioanterior and marginal setae; III, 27 (23–25); IV, 36 (31–35); VI, 34 (35–37). Anal fringe with 32 (35–42) dorsal setae. Dimensions: TW, 0.47 (0.46); MW, 0.44 (0.41–0.42); ANW, 0.22 (0.20–0.21).