New county records of chewing lice (Mallophaga) on birds in Florida

Authors

J. Adam Holt, Florida state Collection of Arthropods, Bureau of Entomology, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

Date of this Version

December 2002

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 16, No. 4, December, 2002. Copyright © 2002 Holt.
Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

County records for avian lice are less significant than the host records themselves. Considering that most avian lice are host specific, the county records should resemble the area the host would most likely be encountered. Nonetheless, the list cited in Forrester and Spalding (2003) contains few and spotty county records. The main source of material for this publication has been the Marathon Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Marathon, Monroe Co., Florida. The center takes in specimens of about 90 species of birds per year. The following is a list of the avian lice species, hosts, and localities with collection dates. All specimens were collected by Kelly Grinter, Leslie Straub, or the author. Representative specimens are deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods and/or the author's collection.