TY - JOUR AU - Valim, Michel P. AU - Botão-Miranda, Raphael A. PY - 2006/02/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Ocorrência de Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763) (Phthiraptera: Amblycera) no Brasil JF - Lundiana: International Journal of Biodiversity JA - Lundiana VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Comunicações curtas DO - 10.35699/2675-5327.2005.22107 UR - https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/lundiana/article/view/22107 SP - 151-153 AB - <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>P. pilosum </em>is recorded for the first time in Brazil. This is a species of chewing louse that participates as an invertebrate host in the biological cycle of a bird filarid. The possibility for this transmission to be occurring in Brazil is discussed and the reports about the participation of these parasites as bioagents spreaders are summarized.</span></span></p> ER -