But massive infestations can substantially reduce performance and reproduction. Felicola subrostrata is the only species of louse likely to be found on domestic cats. Eggs of the wing louse lipeurus caponis hatch 47 days after the female has cemented them to the base of a feather. Heavy infestations produce irritation and bitingstress, leading to lipeutus and much selfgrooming. Lipeurus caponis linnaeus it is found all over the birds body, but less,ipeurus on the head and the wings, on the fluff or base of the feathers. Ectoparasites of guinea fowl numida meleagris galeata pallas. Lice infestation and diversity in turkeys meleagris gallopavo in the special region of yogyakarta and central java, indonesia. Pdf study of parasites in commercial freerange chickens. Lipeurus caponis species more like this term including rank from this source. It has seemed since the publication by the writer of the lifecycle of lipeurus heterographus nitzsch that similar work on other species of poultry lice would be desirable. It was found that menacanthus stramineus, menopon gallinae, goniodes gigas, goniocotes gallinae, lipeurus lawrensis tropicalis, lipeurus caponis and. Consequently, chemical control with whatever lousicides has to be directly administered to the birds and not to the facilities or the environment of the birds. It has seemed since the publication by the writer of the lifecycle of lipeurus.
Six species of lice such as menacanthus stramineus. The distribution of lice phthiraptera on poultry gallus domesticus. The lifecycle and bionomics of lipeurus caponis linn. Lipeurus genus more like this term including rank from this source. Pdf lice infestation and diversity in turkeys meleagris. These species are readily available for experimental work and it would appear that much could be gained by concentrating on the lice of one host, not only because of the economic value of the domestic fowl. Article pdf available july 2015 with 485 reads how we measure reads a read is. Amaryl lids to download pdf you need some things, like my website and the name of the file. Lipeurus caponis bindu lakshmanan1, radhika rajagopal1, gleeja v l2 and hariharan subramanian3 corresponding author. Since temperature and humidity remain quite constant on the body surface of the birds, lice populations are not very susceptible to seasonal changes in climatic and ecological.