Bovicola limbatus

• Main Authors: Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis, Heo, Chong-Chin
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Trichodectidae; Bovicola; Bovicola limbatus; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7797785; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C0E0A6FFF9CFFB3FF0AFD26FC09F966

Bovicola limbatus (Gervais, 1844) Trichodectes limbatus Gervais, 1844: 313, pl. 48: fig. 4. Trichodectes climax major Piaget, 1885: 86, pl. 9: fig. 5. Trichodectes madagascariensis Mjöberg, 1910: 64, figs 38–39. Trichodectes painei Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914: 90, figs 1A–D. Bovicola limbatus (Gervais, 1844); Ewing, 1929: 123. Bovidoecus painei (Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914); Bedford 1929: 519. Bovicola painei (Kellogg & Nakayama, 1914); Bedford 1932b: 362. Bovicola major (Piaget); Emerson 1940: 105. Bovicola sachtlebeni Kéler, 1937: 314, figs 1–2. Bovicola wernecki Kéler, 1937: 317. Damalinia ( Bovicola ) limbata (Gervais, 1844); Hopkins 1949: 504, 533. Bovicola limbatus (Gervais, 1844); Werneck 1950: 62. Damalinia limbata (Gervais, 1844); Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37. Bovicola ( Bovicola ) limbatus (Gervais, 1844); Price et al . 2003: 253. Type host: Capra hircus angorensis (Shaw, 1800) —Angora goat. Type locality: Not given in the original description. Malaysian host: Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758. Malaysian locality: “West Malaysia ”, Peninsular Malaysia (Mustaffa-Babjee 1969). Geographical distribution: Worldwide, except Antarctica. Remarks: Bovicola limbatus and B. caprae and both common parasites of goats (Durden, 2019) and morphologically similar. Sebei et al . (2004) separated the males of Bovicola limbatus and B. caprae by the morphology of their gonopods ( e.g . presence of terminal flaps in B. caprae , but absent in B. limbatus ). In Peninsular Malaysia, only one record of B. limbatus has been reported by Mustaffa-Babjee (1969); however, considering that there are no figures and no mention of genitalia or gonopods of the male, it is not possible determine with certainty the species that Mustaffa-Babjee (1969) examined. Further studies are needed to investigate the occurrence and prevalence of B. limbatus and B. caprae in Malaysia. Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: ...