like structures on each side, a smaller area also present on sternite 

 VI and on the venter of the third femora. 



Female: Chaetotaxy of the head as in the male. Thorax as in male. 

 Abdomen with tergal plates I-VIII undivided; sternites I-VI as in the 

 male, minute comb-like structures on sternum VI lacking. 



Laemobothrion maximum (Scopoli, 1763) 



Pediculus maximus Scopoli, 1763. Ent . Carniolica: 382. 

 Pediculus buteonis J. C. Fabricius, 1776. Gen. Ins.: 309 



{nn for P. maximus Scopoli) . 

 Pediculus civci Fourcroy, 1785. Entomol. Paris.: 518 {nn 



for Geoffroy's Pediculus civci, fuscus , oblongus . . . . ) . 

 Pediculus milvi Schrank, 1803. Fauna Boica : 193. {nn for 



Frisch's "Huhnergeyerlaus". 

 Liotheum (Laemobothrion) giganteum Nitzsch, 1818. Germar's 



Mag. Ent. 3: 301. (nn for maximus Scopoli, buteonis 



Fabricius, and civci Geoff roy) . 

 Nivmus buteonivovus Packard, 1872. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. 



6: 733, fig. 61. 

 Laemobothvium nigrolimbatum Giebel, 1874. Insecta Epizoa: 252. 

 Laemobothvium titan Piaget, 1880. Les Pediculines: 578, 



pi. 49, fig. 1. 

 Laemobothvum loomisi Kellogg and Chapman, 1902. J. New York 



Ent. Soc. 10: 23, pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 Laemobothvium oligothvix Carriker, 1903, Univ. Stud. Nebraska 3: 



161, pi. 4, fig. 7. 

 Laemobothvium cavaoavaensis Kellogg, 1906. J. New York Ent. 



Soc. 14: 48, pi. 2, fig. 6. 

 Laemobothvion eidmanni Eichler, 1942a. Mitt. Dtsch. Ent. 



Ges . 11: 14, figs. 1 and 2. 

 Laemobothvion anatolioum Eichler, 1942b. Zool. Anz. 137: 



52, fig. 1. 

 Laemobothvion hoesohi Eichler, 1942b. Zool. Anz. 137: 56, 



fig. 2. _ _ 

 Laemobothvion niethammevi Eichler, 1942b. Zool. Anz. 137: 



60, fig. 5 

 Laemobothvion indica Sen, 1942. Ind. J. Vet. Sci. Anim. 



Husb. 12: 169, fig._ 1. 

 Laemobothvion hievaaeti Eichler, 1943. Mitt. Konigl. 



Naturwiss. Inst. Sofia 16: 209, fig. 3. „ 

 Laemobothvion buveschi Eichler, 1943. Mitt. Konigl. 



Naturwiss. Inst. Sofia 16: 209, fig. 4. 

 Laemobothvion mjobevgi Eichler, 1944b. Dtsch. Ent. Z. 



1943: 64, figs. 11 and 12. 

 Laemobothvion chondvohievacis Eichler, 1953. Bonn. Zool. 



Beitr. 4: 265, figs. 32b and 32c. 

 Laemobothvion medesi Tendeiro, 1955. Bol. Cult. Guine 



Port. 9: 521, figs. 7 and 8. 

 Laemobothvion siddiquii Ansari ?1955. Proc. 7th Pak. Sci. 



conf. (Sect. Biol.): 57. (Also described as n. sp. in 



Ind. J. Ent. 17: 400). 

 Laemobothvion clayi Tuleschkov, 1957. Izv. Zool. Inst. 



Bulg. Akad. Nauk. (Otd. Biol.) 6: 281. 



