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Elbelia validi Price & Emerson, 1975

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Elbelia validi Price & Emerson, 1975
Name authority
Price & Emerson, 1975
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Psocodea
Family
Menoponidae
Genus
Elbelia
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: yes. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumArthropoda
  4. subphylumHexapoda
  5. classInsecta
  6. orderPsocodea Hennig, 1966
  7. suborderTroctomorpha Roesler, 1940
  8. infraorderPhthiraptera Haeckel, 1896
  9. parvorderAmblycera Kellogg, 1896
  10. superfamilyMenoponoidea Mjoberg, 1910
  11. familyMenoponidae Mjoberg, 1910
  12. genusElbelia Price & Emerson, 1975
  13. speciesElbelia validi Price & Emerson, 1975

Close classified relatives

No other member of this genus is present in the selected snapshot.

Browse 27 records assigned to Menoponidae.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. Price, R.D. & Emerson, K.C. (1975) Three new genera and species of Menoponidae (Mallophaga) from southeast Asia and New Guinea. 16, 427–432. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:396FZ. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.