New mallophaga / by Vernon L. Kellogg.

  • Vernon Lyman Kellogg
Date:
1896-1899
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Credit: New mallophaga / by Vernon L. Kellogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    published in Germar’s Magazin der Entomologie, vol. iii, 1818, Halle, presents the essential features of the classification of the group now used, and contains the earliest accepted nomenclature. Since the publication of this pioneer memoir four monographic works have been issued, together, needless to say, with numerous lesser memoirs containing descriptions of new species, compiled and more or less comprehensive conspecti of the group in text-books, and morphological treatises. The monographs indispensable to the student, of the Mallophaga are Henry Denny’s Monographia Anopluro- rum Britannite, or an Essay on the British Species of Par- asitic Insects, 1842, London, illustrated with colored plates; Christoph Giebel’s “ Insecta Epizoa, die auf Saugethieren und Vogeln schmarotzenden Insekten, nach Chr. L. Nitzsch’s Nachlass bearbeitet, mit XX Tafeln nach Nitzsch’s Handzeichnungen,” 1874, Leipzig; E. Piaget’s “ Les Pediculines, Essai Monographique, vol. i, Texte, vol. ii, Planches, 1880, Supplement, 1885,” Ley- den; and O. Taschenberg’s “Die Mallophagen, mit be- sonderer Berlicksichtigung der von Dr. Meyer gesam- melten Arten,” Nova Acta der Ksl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Band xliv, No. 1, 1882, Halle. Of these monographs Denny’s is limited to a consideration of the parasites found on birds col- lected in England, his descriptions are too brief, and the colored figures too superficially drawn, so that it is often impossible to recognize from his description and illustra- tion the species of parasite which he had under consider- ation. Giebel’s monograph, as indicated in the title, is based on the unpublished descriptions and drawings of Nitzsch. Giebel also had access to the specimens col- lected and prepared by Nitzsch. The work is a monu- mental one, although many of the descriptions are incom-
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