Myrsidea, Literak, 2017

Literak, Ivan, 2017, Where are the species limits? Morphology versus genetics in Neotropical chewing lice of the genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae), with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4324 (1), pp. 161-179 : 174

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6026484
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scientific name	Myrsidea
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Myrsidea sp. 2

Material examined. Ex Trichothraupis melanops (Vieillot, 1818) —Black-goggled tanager ( Thraupidae ): 1♂, San Rafael National Park, Paraguay (26°30'S, 55°47'W), 20 Aug. 2012, I. Literak.

Remarks. This is the first record of a chewing louse from Trichothraupis melanops . A portion of COI gene was sequenced from our single male specimen from T. melanops (GenBank accession number KY249558 View Materials ). Comparing our sequence with other known sequences of Neotropical Myrsidea , the closest was Myrsidea fusca ( Carriker, 1903) (A/N FJ 171267 View Materials ) with a sequence divergence of 16.0%. Furthermore, Myrsidea sp. 2 is morphologically very close to M. patersoni Price & Johnson, 2009 (A/N GQ454448 View Materials ), but the net average pdistance between these two species is 18.5%. These divergences would justify the recognition of our specimen as a separate species. However, having only one male is insufficient for an adequate description of a new species.