Plasmodium papernai

Plasmodium papernai is a parasite of the genus "Plasmodium" subgenus "Novyella". As in all "Plasmodium" species, "P. papernai" has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.
Taxonomy.
The parasite was first described by Grès and Landau in 1997.