Chewing lice of Bearded Reedling (Panurus biarmicus) and diversity of louse-host associations of birds in reed beds in Slovakia.

Autor:	Sychra O; Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, Palackeho tr. 1946/1, 61242, Brno, Czechia., Sušilová L; Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, Palackeho tr. 1946/1, 61242, Brno, Czechia., Najer T; Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 00, Prague 6, Czechia - Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, 61820, USA., Literák I; Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, Palackeho tr. 1946/1, 61242, Brno, Czechia., Papoušek I; Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, Palackeho tr. 1946/1, 61242, Brno, Czechia., Martinů J; Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czechia - Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i, České Budějovice, Czechia., Trnka A; Department of Biology, University of Trnava, Priemyselna 4, 918 43, Trnava, Slovakia., Capek M; Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i, Kvetna 8, 603 65, Brno, Czechia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Parasite (Paris, France) [Parasite] 2024; Vol. 31, pp. 8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 08.
DOI:	10.1051/parasite/2024006
Abstrakt:	A total of 1,621 wild birds representing 34 species were examined for chewing lice in reed beds in southwestern Slovakia during the pre-breeding migration 2008-2009 and 2016-2019. A total of 377 (23.3%) birds representing 15 species were parasitized by 26 species of chewing lice of 12 genera. Dominant genera were Penenirmus (with dominance 32.6%) and Menacanthus (29.4%), followed by Brueelia (12.6%), Acronirmus (10.8%), Philopterus (7.7%), and Myrsidea (4.2%). We evaluated 33 host-louse associations including both 1) host-generalist, parasitizing more than one host species and host-specific lice, occurring only on a single host species, and 2) lice species with large range geographic distribution, reported across the range of the distribution of their hosts and lice species with only occasional records from a limited area within the range of their hosts. The Bearded Reedling, Panurus biarmicus (Linnaeus, 1758), was parasitized by two species of chewing lice, Menacanthus brelihi Balát, 1981 and Penenirmus visendus (Złotorzycka, 1964), with conspicuously different prevalences (5.6% vs. 58.2%, respectively; n = 251). New material enabled us to redescribe both species of lice: the first one is resurrected from previous synonymy as a valid species. A fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene was sequenced from these two species in order to assess their relative phylogenetic position within their genera. Our study demonstrates the importance of an adequate identification of parasites, especially on rarely examined and endangered hosts. (© O. Sychra et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2024.)
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