Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum

BLOOD PARASITES OF TWO BEE-EATERS iN IRAQ

Authors

Mohammad K. Mohammad Iraq Natural History Research Center and Museum, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Taha M. Al-Neaimi State Board of Plant Protection- Ministry of agriculture. Baghdad

Abstract

Examination of 241 specimens of two bee-eater species, Merops apiaster and Merops
superciliosus persicus reveal recording of Haemoproteus meropis (Zagar, 1945) emend.
Bennett, 1978 and H. manwelli Bennett, 1978 for the first time in Iraq. A new species
Haemoproteus hudaidensis sp. nov. is described. Microfilariae are also infected the two host
species. The results are discussed with the pertinent literature and the necessary comparision
of morphometric measurements of the recorded parasites with that previously reported is
provided along with a taxonomic key including the newly described haemoproteid.

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Published

2000-07-01

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2000)

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Original Articles

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