Campanulotes elegans is a species of lice in the disputed, probably paraphyletic, family Philopteridae, the chewing lice, or in the family Goniodidae.
| Campanulotes elegans | |
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| Holotype specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Psocodea |
| Family: | Philopteridae |
| Genus: | Campanulotes |
| Species: | C. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Campanulotes elegans | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Campanulotes flavus elegans (Tendeiro, 1978) | |
It is a parasite on Phaps elegans, the brush bronzewing, a species of bird in the pigeon family endemic to Australia.
References
edit- ^ Estudos sobre os Goniodideos (Mallophaga, Ischnocera) dos Columbiformes. XVII - Novas observações sobre os generos Campanulotes Kéler, Saussurites Tendeiro e Stephanius Tendeiro. J Tendeiro, Garcia de Orta, Série Zoologia, 1978, Volume 7, pages 115-127 (URL)
- ^ 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]
External links
edit- "Campanulotes elegans". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- "Campanulotes elegans". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). 915388.
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