Colpocephalum nanum Piaget, 1890

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 : 26

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5712549

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scientific name

Colpocephalum nanum Piaget, 1890
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Colpocephalum nanum Piaget, 1890

Host: Buteo lagopus (Pontoppidan, 1763) .

Ref.: Balát (1956) as Colpocephalum sp. ? flavescens ; Straka (1987) as Coplocephalum sp.; this paper.

Locations: Myslenice, 4 Feb. 1951; Bratislava, 12 Dec. 1952 ( Balát 1956); Martin, 24 Jan. 1977 (Straka Coll., AKMM); Trnava, 15–28 Feb. 1939 (Pfleger Coll., SNMB) .

Notes: Balát (1956) recorded Colpocephalum sp. from this host, noting that it may have been C. flavescens . Unfortunately, we cannot verify it, because there is no slide with Colpocephalum from Buteo lagopus in Balát’s Collection. Considering that C. flavescens is a parasite of eagles of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus ( Price et al. 2003: 98) , we believe that Balát’s tentative identification is incorrect and that these lice are most likely C. nanum , a common parasite of B. lagopus ( Price et al. 2003: 100) . Furthermore, the Pfleger Collection includes slides with C. nanum from B. lagopus . Therefore, we can confirm that this is a valid host-louse association for Slovakia, as well as the first record of Colpocephalum nanum from Slovakia.

SNMB

Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Menoponidae

Genus

Colpocephalum

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