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Campanulotes

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Campanulotes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Psocodea
Family: Philopteridae
Genus: Campanulotes
Kéler 1939[1][2]
Species
Synonyms

Nitzschielloides

Campanulotes is a genus of lice in the disputed, probably paraphyletic, family Philopteridae, the chewing lice, or in the family Goniodidae.

It is mostly a genus of parasites on birds.

Some species in the genus may have been cases of coextinction. The species Campanulotes defectus was thought to have been unique to the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), an extinct bird from North America, but is now believed to have been a case of a contaminated specimen, as the species is considered to be the still-extant Campanulotes flavus of Australia.

Known species of ectoparasites of the common rock dove include Campanulotes bidentatus compar.

References

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  1. ^ S Kéler 1939: Nova Acta Leop. Carol., (N.F.) 8, 157.
  2. ^ Baustoffe zu einer Monographie der Mallophagen. S Kéler, Geschäftsstelle der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, 1939.
  • Pigeon lice down under: Taxonomy of Australian Campanulotes (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae), with a description of C. durdeni N. Sp. Roger D. Price, Dale H. Clayton, and Richard J. Adams, Journal of Parasitology: October 2000, Vol. 86, No. 5, pages 948-950 doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0948:PLDUTO2.0.CO;2]
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