Brueelia

Brueelia (formerly spelled Brüelia) is a genus of bird lice in the family Philopteridae that infest Passerine (perching) birds. Lice in Brueelia are usually host specific, with more than 85% of described species each found on a single host bird species. Over 300 species of Brueelia have been described, and many more specimens that are presumed to belong to Brueelia are awaiting description and naming.^[1]

Brueelia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Psocodea
Family:	Philopteridae
Genus:	Brueelia Kéler, 1936

The genus Brueelia includes the following species:

• Brueelia afzali Ansari, 1957^[2]
• Brueelia amandavae Rekasi & Saxena, 2005
• Brueelia astrildae Tendeiro & Mendes, 1994
• Brueelia biocellata Piaget, 1880^[2]
• Brueelia blagovescenskyi Balát, 1955^[3]
• Brueelia breueri Balát, 1955^[3]
• Bureelia cantans Sychra, 2010^[4]
• Brueelia clayae Ansari, 1956^[2]
• Brueelia conocephala Blagoveshtcensky, 1940^[3]
• Bureelia deficiens Piaget, 1885^[2]
• Brueelia eichleri Lakshminarayana, 1969
• Brueelia fasciata Sychra, 2010^[4]
• Brueelia ferianci Balát, 1955^[3]
• Brueelia glandari perisoreus Ansari, 1956^[2]
• Brueelia glizi Balát, 1955^[3]
• Brueelia hopkinsi Ansari, 1956^[2]
• Brueelia kluzi Balát, 1955^[3]
• Brueelia kratochvilli Balát, 1958^[3]
• Brueelia lonchurae Tendeiro & Mendes, 1994
• Brueelia matvejevi Balát, 1981^[3]
• Brueelia munia Ansari
• Brueelia pelikani Balát, 1958^[3]
• Brueelia plocea Lakshminarayana
• Brueelia rotundata Osborn, 1896^[2]
• Brueelia senegala Sychra, 2010^[4]
• Brueelia stenozona (Kellogg & Shapman, 1902)
• Brueelia rosickyi Balát, 1955^[3]
• Brueelia rossitensis Kéler, 1936^[3]
• Brueelia vaneki Balát, 1981^[3]

References

1. Bush, Sarah E.; Weckstein, Jason D.; Gustafsson, Daniel R.; Allen, Julie; DiBlasi, Emily; Shreve, Scott M.; Boldt, Rachel; Skeen, Heather R.; Johnson, Kevin P. (January 2016). "Unlocking the black box of feather louse diversity: A molecular phylogeny of the hyper-diverse genus Brueelia" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94 (Pt B): 737–738. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.015. PMID 26455895.
2. Williams, N. Sandra (July 1986). "A review of the Brueelia (Mallaphaga: Philopteridae) from North and Central American Corvidae (Aves: Passeriformes)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 59 (3): 428–436. JSTOR 25084803.
3. Gustafsson, Daniel R.; Oslejskova, Lucie; Najer, Tomas; Sychra, Oldrich; Zou, Fasheng (2019). "Redescriptions of thirteen species of chewing lice in the Brueelia-complex (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae), with one new synonymy and a neotype designation for Nirmus lais Giebel, 1874". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 66 (1): 17–39. doi:10.3897/dez.66.32423. ISSN 1860-1324. S2CID 91673254.
4. Sychra, Oldřich; Literák, Ivan; Najer, Tomáš; Čapek, Miroslav; Koubek, Petr & Procházka, Petr (2010). "Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from estrildid finches (Aves: Passeriformes: Estrildidae) and louse-flies (Insecta: Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from birds in Senegal, with descriptions of three new species of the genus Brueelia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2714: 59–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2714.1.3.

Further reading

• Oslejskova, Lucie; Kounkova, Sarka; Gustafsson, Daniel R.; Resendes, Roberto; Rodrigues, Pedro; Literak, Ivan; Sychra, Oldrich (2020). "Insect ectoparasites from wild passerine birds in the Azores Islands". Parasite. 27: 64. doi:10.1051/parasite/2020063. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 7680507. PMID 33220720.