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Jul 1964
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1964natur.203..424k&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 203, Issue 4943, pp. 424-425 (1964).
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ACCORDING to Hopkins and Clay1 and Eichler2 no Mallophaga exist on Old World monkeys. An adult female Colobus monkey (Colobus guereza guereza Rüppell, 1835), however, collected in Djam-djam, Shoa Province, Ethiopia, by Prof. D. Starck in 1956 and now in the collection of the Anatomical Institute of Frankfurt, was found to be heavily infested by Procavicola colobi (Kellogg, 1910). This species was first described as Trichodectes colobi from Colobus guereza caudatus Thomas, 1885, at Mount Kilimandjaro. Eichler3 made Trichodectes colobi the type species of a new genus Meganarionoides based on the description by Kellogg. Werneck4 has re-examined Kellogg's specimens and has found that they are members of Procavicola, a genus otherwise known from many species of hyraxes (Procaviidae) only. He recognizes Meganarionoides as a sub-genus of Procavicola. Werneck doubted that the natural host of Procavicola colobi was a Colobus monkey, especially as he has found a second lot of Procavicola colobi at his disposal contaminated with other mallophaga, obviously originating from Procaviidae. Consequently, he suggested that the natural host is Dendrohyrax validus. In this he has been followed by Hopkins5 and Hopkins and Clay1.
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