Bonomiella afra Tendeiro, 1980

Cicchino, Armando C. & González-Acuña, Daniel Alfonso, 2012, Species in the genus Bonomiella Conci, 1942 (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from Argentina and Chile, Zootaxa 3427, pp. 47-56 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.212897
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5672910
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Bonomiella afra Tendeiro, 1980
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Tendeiro 1980. Annales Musée Royale d’Afrique Centrale, Série Zoologie., 232: 48–53, photos 9–11, fig. 12. Price et al. 2003: 93.

Type host. Turtur afer afer (Linnaeus, 1766) .

Remarks. This species, known from a single female, seems to be very characteristic by the proportions of the head (cephalic index = 1.45) as well as by its small dimensions and relatively slender abdomen.