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Zootaxa. 2021 Jan 20;4915(1):zootaxa.4915.1.11. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.1.11.
Packard (1873) described Menopon picicola as a new species, based on ten lice taken from two species of woodpeckers of the genus Picoides-P. arcticus (Swainson, 1832) and P. dorsalis Baird, 1858-collected in Wyoming, U.S.A. in August 1872. Considering that (1) Packard (1873) neither designated a holotype nor a single type host, (2) his type material is most likely lost, and (3) no additional lice from either of those two species of Picoides have been reported in the literature, the taxonomic status of Menopon picicola has not been confirmed.
派克德(1873)根据 1872 年 8 月在美国怀俄明州采集的两种啄木鸟,即北极啄木鸟(P. arcticus(斯温森,1832))和黄腹啄木鸟(P. dorsalis 贝尔德,1858),描述了 Menopon picicola 为一个新物种。派克德(1873)既没有指定模式标本,也没有指定单一的模式宿主,考虑到(1)他的模式标本很可能已经丢失,(2)而且文献中也没有报道这两种 Picoides 啄木鸟的其他虱子,(3)因此,Menopon picicola 的分类地位尚未得到确认。