Halipeurus atlanticus Palma, new species
Creators
Description
Halipeurus atlanticus Palma, new species
(Figs 5, 16, 20–21, 31, 46, 56)
Halipeurus sp.; Hilburn, 1990: 187.
Halipeurus sp. nov. (A); Zonfrillo, 1993: 327. Halipeurus sp. GLA959; Hammer et al., 2010: 1114, 1116.
TYPE HOST: Pterodroma madeira Mathews, 1934.
TYPE LOCALITY: Madeira Island, North Atlantic Ocean.
HOLOTYPE: 3 in MONZ.
DIAGNOSIS: Male: habitus as in Fig. 20; clypeal signature as in Fig. 5; terminalia (ventral view) as in Fig. 31; genitalia as in Fig. 56. Female: habitus as in Fig. 21; clypeal signature as in Fig. 16; terminalia (ventral view) as in Fig. 46.
Measurements of both sexes as in Table 1.
ETYMOLOGY: The species epithet atlanticus is a noun in apposition derived from the word Atlantic, referring to the ocean where the geographical ranges of the hosts of this louse are situated. MATERIAL EXAMINED
Types
Ex Pterodroma madeira: Holotype 3 (MONZ, AI.023873), allotype Ƥ, Madeira I., North Atlantic Ocean, Sep. 1990, F. Zino (MONZ). Twenty-four paratypes as follows: 23, 1Ƥ, Madeira I., North Atlantic Ocean, 30 May 1987, F. Zino (MONZ; MFMP); 13, 1Ƥ, Madeira I., North Atlantic Ocean, Jul. 1989, F. Zino (MONZ); 33, 2Ƥ, Madeira I., North Atlantic Ocean, 10 Apr. 2003, F. Zino (MONZ; MFMP); 33, 4Ƥ, Madeira I., North Atlantic Ocean, 21 Apr. 2005, F. Zino (MONZ; MFMP); 7Ƥ, Madeira I., North Atlantic Ocean, 31 May 2006, F. Zino (MONZ; MFMP).
Non-types
Ex Pterodroma cahow (Nichols & Mowbray, 1916): 13, 1Ƥ, Inner Pier, Bermuda, 16 Jun. 1969 (MONZ); 13, 1Ƥ, Nonsuch I., Bermuda, 31 Mar. 1988, D. Wingate & D. Hilburn (MONZ); 1Ƥ, Azores Is, North Atlantic Ocean, Nov. 2003, B. Zonfrillo (MONZ).
DISCUSSION: Morphologically, Halipeurus atlanticus is extremely similar to H. procellariae (J.C. Fabricius, 1775) recorded from five species of Pterodroma (Price et al. 2003: 188). Males only differ in details of the genitalia, and females are indistinguishable at present. However, molecular analysis has shown that they are not as closely related as their morphology would indicate. Values calculated as percentage sequence divergence between H. atlanticus (ex Pt. madeira) and Halipeurus procellariae (ex Pt. lessonii) are 12.7–13% for the 12S gene, and 14.5% for the COI gene (Joseph Hughes pers. comm. 2007). Furthermore, Hammer et al. (2010) have found that H. procellariae and H. consimilis Timmermann, 1960 are sister species, and that H. atlanticus (as H. sp GLA959) is sister to these two taxa. However, the phylogenetic trees in Hammer et al. (2010: 1113) for this clade show that bootstrap support and Bayesian posterior probabilities are low for these relationships. Therefore, morphological data may still be showing the true relationship between H. atlanticus and H. procellariae as sister species.
Recent research by Jesús et al. (2009) on the phylogeny of the two subspecies of Pterodroma feae (Salvadori, 1899) and Pt. madeira shows that these species are more closely related to each other than to other North Atlantic species such as Pt. cahow and Pt. hasitata (Kuhl, 1820). Considering that both Pterodroma feae deserta (Mathews, 1934) and Pt. hasitata harbour Halipeurus theresae Timmermann, 1969 (Zonfrillo 1993), the presence of H. atlanticus on Pt. madeira and Pt. cahow is incongruent with the phylogeny of its hosts.
Notes
Files
Files
(4.1 kB)
Name | Size | Download all |
---|---|---|
md5:8cfa5a309b7f87ae0b0fbf6819098bd6
|
4.1 kB | Download |
System files
(30.7 kB)
Name | Size | Download all |
---|---|---|
md5:8178d00517c73f04d723c2a1dcbeeae2
|
30.7 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BFF404FFEFFFDEFF6604EBBB0378B5
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B37B68D6-4E2D-4840-BC76-B8175E3D1C49
Biodiversity
- Family
- Philopteridae
- Genus
- Halipeurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Phthiraptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Palma
- Species
- atlanticus
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Halipeurus atlanticus Palma, 2011
References
- Hilburn, D. J. (1990) New records of Neuroptera, Mallophaga, and Strepsiptera from Bermuda. Florida entomologist, 73 (1), 186 - 187.
- Zonfrillo, B. (1993) Relationships of the Pterodroma petrels from the Madeira archipelago inferred from their feather lice. Boletin do Museu Municipal do Funchal, Suplemento, 2, 325 - 331.
- Hammer, S., Brown, R. M., Bugoni, L., Palma, R. L. & Hughes, J. (2010) On the origin of Halipeurus heraldicus on Round Island petrels: cophylogenetic relationships between petrels and their chewing lice. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 55, 1111 - 1120.
- Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema Entomologiae, sistens insectorum, classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Officina Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae. xxxii + 832 pp.
- Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A., Palma, R. L., Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. (2003) The chewing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24, x + 501 pp.
- Timmermann, G. (1960) Gruppen-Revisionen bei Mallophagen. II. Genus Halipeurus Thompson 1936. 1. Teil: Die Halipeurus - Arten der " gadfly-petrels " (Genera Pterodroma und Bulweria). Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 20, 317 - 334.
- Jesus, J., Menezes, D., Gomes, S., Oliveira, P., Nogales, M. & Brehm, A. (2009) Phylogenetic relationships of gadfly petrels Pterodroma spp. from the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean: molecular evidence for specific status of Bugio and Cape Verde petrels and implications for conservation. Bird Conservation International, 19, 199 - 214.
- Timmermann, G. (1969) Neue Mallophagen aus dem Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bonner zoologische Beitrage, 20 (1 / 3), 244 - 252.