Menopon gallinae ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5712704
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scientific name	Menopon gallinae ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Menopon gallinae ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Host: Gallus gallus ( Linnaeus, 1758) —captive bird.

Ref.: this paper.

Location: Kláštor pod Znievom, 25 Apr. 1977 (Straka Coll., AKMM) .

Note: Although the occurrence of this louse species if probably well known among veterinarians and hen breeders, this is the first record of Menopon gallinae from Slovakia. Specimens in the Straka’s collection are mounted partially together with Menacanthus stramineus and Goniocotes gallinae on the same slides reported by Straka (1987) as Menacanthus sp.