Brueelia Explained

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]

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]

Further reading

• Oslejskova. Lucie. Kounkova. Sarka. Gustafsson. Daniel R.. Resendes. Roberto. Rodrigues. Pedro. Literak. Ivan. Sychra. Oldrich. Insect ectoparasites from wild passerine birds in the Azores Islands. Parasite. 27. 2020. 64. 1776-1042. 33220720. 10.1051/parasite/2020063 . 7680507. free.

Notes and 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 . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 94 . Pt B . 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.015 . free . 737–738. 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 . 25084803.
3. Gustafsson . Daniel R. . Oslejskova . Lucie . Najer . Tomas . Sychra . Oldrich . Zou . Fasheng . 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 . 2019 . 17–39 . 1860-1324. 10.3897/dez.66.32423 . free . 91673254 .
4. Sychra, Oldřich . Literák, Ivan . Najer, Tomáš . Čapek, Miroslav . Koubek, Petr . Procházka, Petr . amp . 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 . . 2714 . 59–68 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2714.1.3 . free .