Degeeriella aquilarum Eichler, 1943c

Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, Zootaxa 5069 (1), pp. 1-80 : 50

Degeeriella aquilarum Eichler, 1943c

Host: Clanga pomarina (Brehm, 1831) .

Ref.: Balát (1977) as Degeeriella discocephalus aquilarum ; this paper.

Location: Štrba, 2 Sep. 1938 (Pfleger Coll., SNMB) .

Notes: Balát (1977) recorded Degeeriella discocephalus aquilarum from Slovakia without a host association. This louse species parasitises six species of eagles ( Price et al. 2003: 173) of which Aquila chrysaetos , A. heliaca , Clanga clanga and C. pomarina may occur in Slovakia ( Hudec & Černý 1977). No specimen of Degeeriella from these hosts can be found in the Balát Collection but, as Balát was in contact with Pfleger, he may have examined lice from the Pfleger Collection. Therefore, we assume that Balát’ (1977) record was based on material from the Pfleger Collection.