<i>Pseudolynchia canariensis</i>(Diptera: Hippoboscidae): distribution pattern and phoretic association with skin mites and chewing lice of<i>Columba livia</i>(Aves: Columbidae)

Amaral, Hugo Leonardo da Cunha; Bergmann, Fabiane Borba; Silveira, Tony; Santos, Paulo Roberto Silveira dos; Krüger, Rodrigo Ferreira

doi:10.1080/00222933.2013.791939

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“…Of the ectosymbionts collected in this study, one louse (Colu. columbae) and one skin mite (O. hallae) are known to be phoretic on the Pigeon Louse Fly Pseudolynchia canariensis (Macquart) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) [18,53]. Pseudolynchia canariensis has been recorded from North America and is most abundant in warm climates [62,63].…”

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“…Although not all of these are closely related phylogenetically, they are all permanent ectosymbionts with direct life cycles and have no stages that live off the body of the host. Most of them rely on direct contact between hosts to disperse [16,17], although some species of skin mites and chewing lice can disperse by phoresy on hippoboscid flies [18]. Chewing lice and vane-dwelling feather mites have most often been the subjects of 'sorting-event' studies [4,8], while to our knowledge there is no such study that has examined the entire assemblage of ectosymbionts of a host in its novel range.…”

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“…. The remaining thirteen ectosymbionts have never been recorded on Rock Pigeons within North America: three skin mites (Myialges anchora Sergent and Trouessart, Myialges lophortyx [Furmann and Tharshis], and Rivoltasia bifurcata [Rivolta]), four feather-dwelling mites (Megninia cubitalis Mégnin, Pterophagoides paradoxus Gaud and Barré, Pterophagus strictus Mégnin, and Pterolichus obtusus Robin) and six louse species (Coloceras aegypticum [Kellogg and Paine], Coloceras damicorne [Nitzsch], Coloceras israelensis [Tenderio], Coloceras liviae [Tenderio], Colpocephalum afrozeae Naz, Sychra and Rizvi, and Physconelloides zenaidurae [McGregor])[14,18,21,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61].…”

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Variation in Ectosymbiont Assemblages Associated with Rock Pigeons (Columba livia) from Coast to Coast in Canada

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When a species colonizes a new area, it has the potential to bring with it an array of smaller-bodied symbionts. Rock Pigeons (Columba livia Gmelin) have colonized most of Canada and are found in almost every urban center. In its native range, C. livia hosts more than a dozen species of ectosymbiotic arthropods, and some of these lice and mites have been reported from Rock Pigeons in the United States. Despite being so abundant and widely distributed, there are only scattered host-symbiont records for rock pigeons in Canada. Here we sample Rock Pigeons from seven locations across Canada from the west to east (a distance of > 4000 km) to increase our knowledge of the distribution of their ectosymbionts. Additionally, because ectosymbiont abundance can be affected by temperature and humidity, we looked at meteorological variables for each location to assess whether they were correlated with ectosymbiont assemblage structure. We found eight species of mites associated with different parts of the host’s integument: the feather dwelling mites Falculifer rostratus (Buchholz), Pterophagus columbae (Sugimoto) and Diplaegidia columbae (Buchholz); the skin mites: Harpyrhynchoides gallowayi Bochkov, OConnor and Klompen, H. columbae (Fain), and Ornithocheyletia hallae Smiley; and the nasal mites Tinaminyssus melloi (Castro) and T. columbae (Crossley). We also found five species of lice: Columbicola columbae (Linnaeus), Campanulotes compar (Burmeister), Coloceras tovornikae Tendeiro, Hohorstiella lata Piaget, and Bonomiella columbae Emerson. All 13 ectosymbiont species were found in the two coastal locations of Vancouver (British Columbia) and Halifax (Nova Scotia). The symbiont species found in all sampling locations were the mites O. hallae, H. gallowayi, T. melloi and T. columbae, and the lice Colu. columbae and Camp. compar. Three local meteorological variables were significantly correlated with mite assemblage structure: annual minimum and maximum temperatures and maximum humidity in the month the pigeon was collected. Two local meteorological variables, annual maximum and average temperatures, were significantly correlated with louse assemblages. Our results suggest that milder climatic conditions may affect richness and assemblage structure of ectosymbiont assemblages associated with Rock Pigeons in Canada.

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“…For both species of Turdus, the mean intensity of infestation of Myrsidea and Brueelia was highly variable, which resulted in an aggregated distribution, as reported in other studies of Turdus species (Wheller and Threlfall 1986;Lindell et al 2002;). Aggregated distributions have been observed in studies of parasites from vertebrates (Shaw and Dobson 1995;Poulin 2007b;Amaral, Bergmann, Silveira, et al 2013), characterized by a pattern in which many hosts have a low parasite intensity and few with a high intensity of parasites.…”

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Composition and distribution patterns of chewing lice of two neotropical species ofTurdus

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We analyzed the prevalence and intensity of chewing lice on two neotropical species of Turdus and identified morphological parameters of birds influencing louse population dynamics. The study was conducted in southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state (RS), Brazil, between July 2009 and June 2010. Chewing lice were collected by dust-ruffling. The prevalence of chewing lice on both species of Turdus was high. Chewing lice from both species of Turdus exhibit similar composition and distribution patterns. However, chewing lice were more abundant on Turdus rufiventris, whereas species richness was higher on Turdus amaurochalinus. Myrsidea and Brueelia were the most prevalent and abundant genera on both host species in all seasons of the year. A predominance of chewing louse females and adults was observed. Aggregated distributions were observed. Body length was the only morphological parameter correlated with louse abundance, suggesting that specimens with a larger body have a higher abundance of lice.

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The prevalence of pigeon fly (Pseudolynchia canariensis) and its phoretic association with mites in domestic pigeons kept in west of Iran

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Pseudolynchia canariensis(Diptera: Hippoboscidae): distribution pattern and phoretic association with skin mites and chewing lice ofColumba livia(Aves: Columbidae)

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Variation in Ectosymbiont Assemblages Associated with Rock Pigeons (Columba livia) from Coast to Coast in Canada

Variation in Ectosymbiont Assemblages Associated with Rock Pigeons (Columba livia) from Coast to Coast in Canada

Composition and distribution patterns of chewing lice of two neotropical species ofTurdus

The prevalence of pigeon fly (Pseudolynchia canariensis) and its phoretic association with mites in domestic pigeons kept in west of Iran

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