González-Acuña Daniel, Cicchino Armando, Echeverry Diana, Ardiles Karen, Oyarzún-Ruiz Pablo, Mironov Sergey, Moreno Lucila
Laboratorio de Parásitos y Enfermedades de Fauna Silvestre, Departamento de Ciencia Animal, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Concepción, Chillán, Chile.
Laboratorio de Artrópodos, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rev Bras Parasitol Vet. 2022 Jan 5;31(1):e018521. doi: 10.1590/S1984-29612021096. eCollection 2022.
Ectoparasites of 18 free-living Cuban Ground Doves, Columbina passerina insularis (Columbiformes: Columbidae), captured in the National Zoological Park, Havana, Cuba, were identified. The collected ectoparasites included two species of lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): Columbicola passerinae (77.1%), and Physconelloides eurysema (50%), as well as four species of feather mites (Astigmata: Falculiferidae): Pterophagus lomatus (83.3%), Byersalges talpacoti (50%), Byersalges phyllophorus (72.2%), and Hyperaspidacarus tridentatus (27.7%). Pterophagus lomatus, B. phyllophorus, and H. tridentatus represent new records for Cuba.