Dr. Murai Éva - Gubányi András szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 27. (Budapest, 1994)
Notes on the louse fauna of capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus L.) from the Kelemen Alps, Romania József RÉKÁSI 1 and László KALABÉR 2 l Benedictiner Secondary School, H-9090 Pannonhalma, Hungary 2 4225 Reghin (Szászrégen), Str. Eminescu 26, Romania The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus L., 1758) inhabits parts of the Alps, the Carpathian, Balkan and Pyrenean mountains and some areas of Scotland, Scandinavia, Eastern and Northeastern Europe. In Hungary, the first individuals were observed in the 1880s in western Vas and Győr-Sopron counties, presumably due to a colonisation from Austrian breeding fields. Considerable populations became established in Őrség and in the Kőszegi and Soproni mountains. Its regular occurrence and breeding decreased gradually through decades and finally capercaillie ran extinct in the 1960s. In the past two decades only vagrant individuals were scarcely observed. As there is no hope to collect lice from capercaillie in Hungary, those collected by ornithologist László Kalabér are of special value. The lice originate from two male capercaillies (a 7-8 years old and a 3-4 years old) collected on 9 May 1994 in the Kelemen alps, near Galoaia (Galonya), Romania. At determination twelve days later on 21 May most lice were still living and feeding on the barbs of the feathers. Lice were also collected from the plumage and from the base of the bill of the second bird. The first bird harboured 19 individuals of lice belonging to two species, while the second one harboured 15 individulas of three species. MALLOPHAGA Nitzsch, 1818 Ischnocera Kellogg, 1908 Goniodidae Mjöberg, 1910 Zlotorzyckella Eichler, 1981 Zlotorzyckella bituberculata (Rudow, 1869), 1st host: 7 males, 4 females, 6 nymphs, 2nd host: 1 nymph Degeeriellidae Leach, 1815 Lagopoecus Waterson, 1922 Lagopoecuspallidovittatus (Grube, 1851), 1st host: 1 male, 1 female, 2nd host: 5 males, 6 females Lipeuridae Mjöberg, 1910 Reticulipeurus Kéler, 1958 Reticulipeurus tetraonis tetraonis (Grube, 1851), 2nd host: 2 females, 1 nymph
