Durden Lance A, Kessler Sharon E, Boundenga Larson, Ngoubangoye Barthélemy, Tsoumbou Thierry A, Moussadji-Kinga Cyr I, Halbwax Michel, Setchell Joanna M, Nichols Jennifer, Greiman Stephen E
Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30458.
University of Stirling, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland.
J Parasitol. 2020 Apr 1;106(2):221-232. doi: 10.1645/19-170.
Members of the sucking louse genus Pedicinus are ectoparasites of cercopithecid primates in Africa, Asia, and Gibraltar. Pedicinus gabonensis n. sp. is described on the basis of adult male and female specimens collected from the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in Gabon. The new species is compared morphologically with other members of the genus Pedicinus, and a nuclear elongation factor 1 alpha gene sequence is provided. Host associations and geographical distributions of the 18 previously recognized species of the genus and of P. gabonensis n. sp. are reviewed. Updated identification keys are provided for males and females of all known valid species of Pedicinus.
吸血虱属（Pedicinus）的成员是非洲、亚洲和直布罗陀猕猴科灵长类动物的体外寄生虫。加蓬吸血虱（Pedicinus gabonensis）新物种是根据从加蓬山魈（Mandrillus sphinx）采集的成年雄性和雌性标本描述的。将该新物种与吸血虱属的其他成员进行形态学比较，并提供了一个核延伸因子1α基因序列。回顾了该属18个先前已确认物种以及加蓬吸血虱新物种的宿主关联和地理分布。为吸血虱属所有已知有效物种的雄性和雌性提供了更新的鉴定检索表。
