Pediculus pilosus Scopoli, 1763: 384.
Menopon tridens Burmeister, 1838: 440.
Pseudomenopon tridens (Nitzsch) [sic]; Ferris 1924: 63, fig. 4.
Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 302.
Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Price 1974: 73, figs 1–6, 11, 18, 21–22.
Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Price et al. 2003: 135.
Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Cicchino 2011: 102, figs 1–3, 8–13, 32, 42, 47.
Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Palma 2017: 77.
Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay & Hopkins 1951: 19).
Type host: Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758.
Chilean hosts: Fulica armillata Vieillot, 1817; Fulica cornuta Bonaparte, 1853.
Other hosts: Hydrophasianus chirurgus (Scopoli, 1786); Podica senegalensis (Vieillot, 1817); seven species of Fulica, and five species of Gallinula (see Price et al. 2003: 136).
Chilean localities: Antofagasta: Region II.
Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.
Chilean references: Price (1974: 75); Cicchino (2011: 103).
Other significant references: Ferris (1924); Clay & Hopkins (1951: 19); Tendeiro (1965a: 19, photos 2–3, 22, 32, 43, 52); Price (1974); Lakshminarayana (1977: 56); Palma (1996: 142); Martín-Mateo (2002: 42, figs 9–10); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2017).
Remarks: Pseudomenopon pilosum is a frequently collected species from a large number of hosts (Palma 2017). Bartlett & Anderson (1987) demonstrated the transmission of the filarioid nematode Pelecitus fulicaeatrae (Diesing, 1861) by this louse.
Genus Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954
Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954: Rev. Bras. Entomol. 2, 150. Type species: Psittacobrosus burmeisteri kelloggi Carriker, 1954 = Psittacobrosus kelloggi Carriker, 1954 (by original designation).