genus

Myrsidea Waterston, 1915

Type

Myrsidea victrix Waterston, 1915 type species by original designation of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915

Nomenclature (53)

Myrsidea Waterston, 1915: 12.
type species by original designation Myrsidea victrix Waterston, 1915
Acolpocephalum Ewing, 1927: 88.
type species by original designation or monotypy Acolpocephalum brevipes Ewing, 1927
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Acolpocephalum Ewing, 1927 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Allomyrsidea Conci, 1942: 31.
type species by original designation or monotypy Myrsidea struthidea Thompson, 1939
Australmenopon Conci, 1942: 31.
type species by original designation or monotypy Menopon cinerea Thompson, 1939
Corvomenopon Conci, 1942: 31.
type species by original designation Menopon robsoni Cummings, 1914
Allomyrsidea Conci, 1942 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Australmenopon Conci, 1942 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Corvomenopon Conci, 1942 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Ramphasticola Carriker, 1949: 305.
type species by original designation or monotypy Ramphasticola hirsuta Carriker, 1949
Alcediniphilus Ansari, 1951: 189.
type species by original designation or monotypy Myrsidea kuluensis Ansari, 1951
Myrsidella Eichler, 1951: 49.
type species by original designation or monotypy Menopon consimilis Piaget, 1885
Alcediniphilus Ansari, 1951 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Myrsidella Eichler, 1951 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Kéler, 1963: 6. Phylogeny
Densidea Zlotorzycka, 1964: 171.
type species by original designation Menopon rusticum Giebel, 1874
Eichlerinopon Zlotorzycka, 1964: 179.
type species by original designation Eichlerinopon celeripes Zlotorzycka, 1964
Lanimenopon Zlotorzycka, 1964: 177.
type species by original designation Lanimenopon abhorrens Zlotorzycka, 1964
Liquidea Zlotorzycka, 1964: 173.
type species by original designation or monotypy Liquidea proterva Zlotorzycka, 1964
Neomyrsidella Zlotorzycka, 1964: 182.
type species by original designation or monotypy Neomyrsidella usitata Zlotorzycka, 1964
Vulgidea Zlotorzycka, 1964: 172.
type species by original designation or monotypy Liotheum (Menopon) cucullare Nitzsch, 1818
Densidea Zlotorzycka, 1964 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Eichlerinopon Zlotorzycka, 1964 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Lanimenopon Zlotorzycka, 1964 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Liquidea Zlotorzycka, 1964 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Neomyrsidella Zlotorzycka, 1964 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Vulgidea Zlotorzycka, 1964 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Tandan & Clay, 1971: 234. Key
Wolfdietrichia Zlotorzycka, 1973: 51.
type species by original designation or monotypy Ricinus cornicis de Geer, 1778
Wolfdietrichia Zlotorzycka, 1973 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915)
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Chandra, Agarwal & Saxena, 1989 Distribution/Dispersal
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Rékási, 1993: 85. Distribution/Dispersal
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Martín-Mateo, 2002: 118. Distribution/Dispersal; Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Hellenthal & Price, 2003: 16. Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price, Hellenthal & Weckstein, 2004: 16. Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price, Hellenthal & Dalgleish, 2005: 2. Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Dalgleish & Price, 2005: 2.
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Hellenthal & Price, 2005: 485.
Ramphasticola Carriker, 1949 in Hellenthal, Price & Weckstein, 2005: 565. Phylogeny
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price & Dalgleish, 2006: 21. Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Johnson & Price, 2006
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price & Johnson, 2006
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price & Dalgleish, 2007: 16. Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price, Johnson & Dalgleish, 2008
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price, Johnson & Dalgleish, 2008
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Valim, Lambrecht & Vianna, 2009: 253.
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Price & Johnson, 2009: 62.
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Valim, Price & Johnson, 2011: 2.
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Sychra, Kounek, Papousek, Capek, Cardenas-Callirgos, Franco & Literak, 2014: 17. Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Valim & Cicchino, 2015: 204. Key
Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 in Valim & Reiley, 2015: 854. Key

Ramphasticola Carriker, 1949 in Lei, Chu, Dik, Zou, Wang & Gustafsson, 2020: 104. Phylogeny
Ramphasticola Carriker, 1949 (subjective synonym of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915) in Kolencik, Sychra, Johnson, Weckstein, Sallam & Allen, 2024: 3. Classification

Nomenclature references (33)

Ansari, M.A.R. (1951) Mallophaga (Amblycera) infesting birds in the Panjab (India). 17, 127–203.
Carriker, M.A., Jr. (1949) Neotropical Mallophaga miscellany. V. New genera and species. 9, 297–313.
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Chandra, S., Agarwal, G.P. & Saxena, A.K. (1989) Distribution of Mallophaga on the body of Acridotheres tristis (Aves). 30(1), 39–42.

Conci, C. (1942) Quattro nuovi generi ed una nuova sottofamiglia di Menoponidae dei Passeracei (Mallophaga). 74, 30–32.

Dalgleish, R.C. & Price, R.D. (2005) Two new species of the genus Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from cotingas (Passeriformes: Cotingidae). Zootaxa, 983, 1–6.

Eichler, W. (1951) Notulae Mallophagologicae. XVII. Die Myrsideen. 146, 45–53.

Ewing, H.E. (1927) Descriptions of new genera and species of Mallophaga, together with keys to some related genera of Menoponidae and Philopteridae. 17, 86–96.

Hellenthal, R.A. & Price, R.D. (2003) The genus Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from bulbuls (Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae), with descriptions of 16 new species. Zootaxa, 354, 1–20.

Hellenthal, R.A. & Price, R.D. (2005) Two new species of Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae) from the Jewel-Babblers (Passeriformes: Eupetidae) from New Guinea. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 107(3), 485–488.

Hellenthal, R.A., Price, R.D. & Weckstein, J.D. (2005) The genus Ramphasticola Carriker (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae) from the Toucans (Piciformes: Ramphastidae), with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 107(3), 565–571.

Johnson, K.P. & Price, R.D. (2006) Five new species of Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from bristlebills and greenbuls (Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae) in Ghana. Zootaxa, 1177, 27–37.

Kolencik, S., Sychra, O., Johnson, K.P., Weckstein, J.D., Sallam, M.F. & Allen, J.M. (2024) The parasitic louse genus Myrsidea (Amblycera: Menoponidae): a comprehensive review and world checklist. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 8(3), 1–60.

Kéler, S. (1963) Insekten 1. Tiel 13. Ordnung: Läuselinge, Federlinge und Haarlinge Mallóphaga. In Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Leipzig, Germany. . Vol. 4, Issue 7b, pp. 1–31.

Lei, L., Chu, X., Dik, B., Zou, F., Wang, H. & Gustafsson, D.R. (2020) Four new species of Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae) from Chinese babblers (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae, Paradoxornithidae, Timaliidae). Zootaxa, 4878(1), 103–128.

Martín-Mateo, M.P. (2002) Mallophaga: Amblycera. 20, 1–192. Available at http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/Martin%20Mateo%202002%20-%20Fauna%20Iberica%20-%20Amblycera.pdf

Price, R.D. & Dalgleish, R.C. (2006) Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), with descriptions of 18 new species. Zootaxa, 1174, 1–25.

Price, R.D. & Dalgleish, R.C. (2007) Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Emberizidae (Passeriformes), with descriptions of 13 new species. Zootaxa, 1467, 1–18.

Price, R.D. & Johnson, K.P. (2006) Four new species of Myrsidea Waterston chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Malagasy warblers (Passeriformes). Zootaxa, 1297, 47–55.

Price, R.D. & Johnson, K.P. (2009) Five new species of Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae) in Panama. Zootaxa, 2200, 61–68.

Price, R.D., Hellenthal, R.A. & Dalgleish, R.C. (2005) The genus Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from tyrant-flycatchers (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae), with descriptions of 13 new species. Zootaxa, 1048, 1–20.

Price, R.D., Hellenthal, R.A. & Weckstein, J.D. (2004) The genus Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the toucans (Piciformes: Ramphastidae), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 613, 1–18.

Price, R.D., Johnson, K.P. & Dalgleish, R.C. (2008) Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from wrens (Passeriformes: Troglodytidae), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 1740, 59–65.

Price, R.D., Johnson, K.P. & Dalgleish, R.C. (2008) Five new species of Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from antshrikes and antbirds (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa, 1819, 55–62.

Rékási, J. (1993) Bird lice (Mallophaga) parasiting the Birds in Hungary. 100, 71–93. Available at http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/41455.pdf

Sychra, O., Kounek, F., Papousek, I., Capek, M., Cardenas-Callirgos, J.M., Franco, S. & Literak, I. (2014) Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera et Ischnocera) from wrens (Passeriformes: Troglodytidae), with description of a new species of Myrsidea. 54(1), 1–27.

Tandan, B.K. & Clay, T. (1971) Contributions towards a revision of Myrsidea Waterston. VI. (Phthiraptera, Amblycera: Menoponidae). 123, 209–246.

Valim, M.P. & Cicchino, A.C. (2015) Six new species of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from New World jays of the genus Cyanocorax Boie (Passeriformes: Corvidae), with notes on the chorionic structure of eggs. 90, 191–211.

Valim, M.P. & Reiley, B.M. (2015) The Chewing Lice (Insecta, Phthiraptera) Fauna of the Swainson's Warbler, Limnothlypis swainsonii (Aves, Parulidae). 52(5), 850–857.

Valim, M.P., Lambrecht, F.M. & Vianna, É.E.S. (2009) New records of chewing lice (Insecta, Phthiraptera) from birds of southern Brazil, with description of a new species. 99(3), 249–258.

Valim, M.P., Price, R.D. & Johnson, K.P. (2011) New host records and descriptions of five new species of Myrsidea Waterston, 1915 (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from passerine birds (Aves: Passeriformes). Zootaxa, 3097, 1–19.

Waterston, J. (1915) On two new species of Mallophaga (Menoponidae): Menacanthus balfouri n. sp. and Myrsidea victrix n. sp. from Colombia. 51, 12–16.

Zlotorzycka, J. (1964) Mallophaga parasitizing Passeriformes and Pici. I. Subfamilies Dennyinae, Machaerilaeminae, Colpocephalinae. 12, 165–192.
Zlotorzycka, J. (1973) Systematische Stellung und Wirt-parasit-beziehungen beim Myrsideen-komplex der mitteleuropaischen Corviden. Lounais-Hämeen Luonto (Finland), 46, 46–62.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
genus	15	1	14
superspecies	21	21	0
species	449	386	63
subspecies	20	10	10