Myrsidea Waterston 1915
Creators: name: Sychra, Oldřich
name: Kounek, Filip
name: Papoušek, Ivo
name: Ćapek, Miroslav
name: Cárdenas-Callirgos, Jorge Manuel
name: Franco, Sebastian
name: Literák, Ivan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Menoponidae
Myrsidea

description: Key to the species of Myrsidea parasitic on Neotropical wrens
1. Hypopharyngeal sclerites weakly developed (Fig. 1B). ................................................ 2
– Hypopharyngeal sclerites well-developed or only slightly reduced. ............................. 4
2. Postspiracular seta VI at least 0.35 long. Female: TW at least 0.51, tergites VI–VII together with at least 39 setae, sternites IV–V together with at least 99 setae. Male: TW at least 0.46, tergite VIII with only 8 setae, sternite IV with at least 40 setae. ............................. .................................................. Myrsidea whitemani Price, Johnson & Dalgleish, 2008
– Postspiracular seta VI less than 0.26 long. Female: TW less than 0.49, tergites VI–VII together with less than 36 setae, sternites IV–V together with less than 84 setae. Male: TW less than 0.45, tergite VIII with at least 10 setae, sternite IV with less than 36 setae. ......................................................................................................................................... 3
3. Ratio DHS 10/11 less than 0.50, sternite VII with 29 setae. Female: tergites III–IV with straight posterior margin, tergites III–IV together with at least 41 setae. Male: TW 0.41, tergite V with at least 22 setae. ................ Myrsidea faccioae Valim & Weckstein, 2013
– Ratio DHS 10/11 at least 0.70, sternite VII with less than 20 setae. Female: tergites III–IV with slightly convex medioposterior margin (Fig. 1C), tergites III–IV together with less than 37 setae. Male: TW at least 0.43, tergite V with less than 20 setae. ......................... .................................................................. Myrsidea fasciata Sychra & Kounek sp. nov.
4. Tergites VII–VIII together with less than 18 setae; female with tergite I enlarged, medioposteriorly convex. ......................... Myrsidea bessae Price, Johnson & Dalgleish, 2008
– Tergites VII–VIII together with at least 25 setae; female tergites different. .................. 5
5. Male: TW less than 0.40, postspiracular seta VII short, as long as V and VI (less than 0.18). Female with tergites II and III with a pronounced medioposterior convexity. ....... .................................................................... Myrsidea myiobori Kounek & Sychra, 2011
– Male: TW 0.43, postspiracular seta VII extremely long, as long as VIII (at least 0.40). Female unknown. ................... Myrsidea vincesmithi Price, Johnson & Dalgleish, 2008
description: Published as part of Sychra, Oldřich, Kounek, Filip, Papoušek, Ivo, Ćapek, Miroslav, Cárdenas-Callirgos, Jorge Manuel, Franco, Sebastian & Literák, Ivan, 2014, Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera et Ischnocera) from wrens (Passeriformes: Troglodytidae), with description of a new species of Myrsidea, pp. 1-27 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 (1) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4503818