Rallicola is a genus of chewing louse. It is an ectoparasite of rails and other birds. It was named by Thomas Harvey Johnston and Launcelot Harrison in...
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Rallicola extinctus is an extinct species of phtilopterid louse. The parasite was only known to live on the now extinct huia and is thought to have become...
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India. The bird louse species Rallicola sulcatus has been described from this species; it looks very similar to Rallicola indicus from the bronze-winged...
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chick-eating flying predators. Lice in the genus Apterygon and in the subgenus Rallicola (Aptericola) are exclusively ectoparasites of kiwi species. Nationwide...
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specific to the addax and possibly still surviving in the wild. Parasite: Rallicola guami – host: Guam rail The only known host species of this parasite exists...
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which it was introduced. Weka are host to two species of feather lice (Rallicola harrisoni and Pseudomenopon pilgrimi) which show the same north–south...
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The little spotted kiwi had an obligate louse that parasitized on it, Rallicola pilgrimi. In an example of conservation-induced extinction, all lice were...
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parasites Gongylonema indica and Stellocaronema alii, and the feather louse Rallicola indicus have been described from specimens of the bronze-winged jacana...
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Pseudophilopterus Psittaconirmus Psittoecus Pterocotes Quadraceps Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911 Rallicola extinctus Rhopaloceras Rhynonirmus Rotundiceps Saemundssonia...
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noisy when kept in tents. A species of parasitic phtilopterid louse, Rallicola extinctus, was only known to live on the huia, and apparently became extinct...
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