Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?

By A. Dobson, K. Lafferty, A. Kuris, R. Hechinger, Walter Jetz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Coextinction and persistence of dependent species in a changing world (2012, background): “Many, perhaps most, eukaryotic affiliates belong to hyperdiverse taxa (arthropods, helminths, protists, and fungi) (Dobson et al. 2008) that are not only poorly studied but also often difficult to distinguish and describe using only morphological characters.”
Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases (2010, background): “Collectively, these declines and extinctions are caused by changing the Earth's ecosystems to meet growing demands for food, fresh water, fibre, timber and fuel, and by climate change.”
A global parasite conservation plan (2020, background): “assigned scientific names (Carlson et al., 2019a, 2019b; Dobson et al., 2008; Larsen et al., 2017), and very few parasite species have common names, besides those that are detrimental to humans.”
Is absence of proof a proof of absence? Comments on commensalism (2011, background): “It can be positive (+), negative (−) or neutral (0) for each organism involved in the relation (Odum and Barrett, 2005; Dobson et al., 2008).”