Objectives

Little studies had been done on chewing lice of marine birds in the Middle East. Through this work, parasitic chewing lice of Brown Booby Sula leucogaster (Boddaert) in the Red Sea were recorded for the first time from Egypt.

Methods

One brown booby was examined for chewing lice in Giftun Island, Hurghada. A total of 27 specimens of lice were collected from this bird and phylogenetic analysis of species of genus Pectinopygus associated boobies has been done based on NCBI data.

Results and conclusions

Two species of marine chewing lice were identified: Eidmanniella albescens (Piaget, 1880) and Pectinopygus sulae (Rudow, 1869) ; diagnostic remarks for the two identified species, measurements, and material examined were provided through the manuscript. The final phylogenetic tree indicates the monophyletic origin of Pectinopygus spp. associated with boobies and their paraphyletic relation to other species of Pectinopygus that associated with other Suliformes. Also, independence of boobies’ speciation from chewing louse of genus Pectinopygus speciation. The present work forms a small step in a long way of studying marine chewing lice of Egypt and a better understanding of marine birds/chewing lice interaction.

中文翻译：

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机翼上的寄生虫；埃及的褐布比（Suliformes：Sulidae）上的两个海洋咀嚼虱（Phthiraptera）的两个新记录，并记录了果蝇属（Pectinopygus） /布比斯（boobies）的系统发育

目标

关于咀嚼中东地区海洋鸟类虱子的研究很少。通过这项工作，第一次从埃及记录到了红海中的布朗布比苏拉白蝇（Boddaert）的寄生咀嚼虱子。

方法

在赫尔格达的Giftun岛检查了一只棕色的笨蛋，以咀嚼虱子。从该鸟中收集了总共27头虱子标本，并已根据NCBI数据对果蝇属相关猛禽属的种进行了系统发育分析。

结果与结论

鉴定了两种海洋咀嚼虱子： 白花大肠曼陀罗虫 （Piaget，1880年）和 苏勒果蝇 （Rectow，1869年）；通过手稿提供了对两个已识别物种，测量值和所检查材料的诊断说明。最终的系统发育树表明了果蝇属的单系统起源。与bo鸟有关，以及它们与其他与苏黎形目相关的果蝇物种之间的亲缘关系。另外，bo鸟的物种独立于果蝇属虱子的咀嚼虱物种。目前的工作在研究埃及的海洋咀嚼虱子和更好地了解海洋鸟类/咀嚼虱子相互作用方面迈出了很长的一步。