An overlooked reference led to the production of an homonym and the correct type host for Leucocytozoon bennetti is the European Roller, Coracias garrulas. The emended name proposed from the hook-billed vanga, Vanga curvirostris, is renamed L. vangis n. nov.
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1 June 2006
LEUCOCYTOZOON VANGIS N. NOV FOR L. BENNETTI
Amy F. Savage,
Frederick Ariey,
Ellis C. Greiner
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