Haemoproteus meropis

{{Short description|Species of single-celled organism}}

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| taxon = Haemoproteus meropis

| authority = (Zagar, 1945) emend. Bennett, 1978

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Haemoproteus columbae is a species of parasitic eukaryote that infects bee-eaters.{{cite journal |last1=Mohammad |first1=Mohammad K. |last2=AlNeaim |first2=Taha M. |year=2000 |title=Blood parasites of two bee-eaters in Iraq |journal=Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=71–77 |url=http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=70752 }}