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Actornithophilus bicolor

Description

Actornithophilus bicolor (Piaget, 1880) New record

Colpocephalum bicolor Piaget, 1880: 561, pl. 47, fig. 1.

Actornithophilus bicolor (Piaget, 1880); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 21.

Syntypes ♀ lost (Clay 1951a: 176).

Type host: Arenaria interpres (Linnaeus, 1758).

Galápagos host: Arenaria interpres (Linnaeus, 1758).

Galápagos locality: Isla Genovesa.

Galápagos references: This paper.

Other significant references: Clay (1962: 239, 242, pl. 11, fig. 3); Price et al. (2003: 83).

Material examined: 1 female (MONZ).

Remarks: This is the first record of Actornithophilus bicolor from the Galápagos Islands, a louse recorded from the two species of Arenaria only (Price et al. 2003: 83).

Notes

Published as part of Palma, Ricardo L. & Peck, Stewart B., 2013, An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands , pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 3627 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3627.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5261238

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MONZ
Family
Menoponidae
Genus
Actornithophilus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Piaget
Species
bicolor
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Actornithophilus bicolor (Piaget, 1880) sec. Palma & Peck, 2013

References

  • Piaget, E. (1880) Les Pediculines. Essai Monographique. Leide: E. J. Brill. xxxix + 714 pp., pls 1 - 56.
  • Hopkins, G. H. E. & Clay, T. (1952) A check list of the genera & species of Mallophaga. Trustees of the British Museum, London. 362 pp.
  • Clay, T. (1951 a) Systematic nots on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt II. Annals and magazine of natural history (Series 12), 4 (38), 173 - 182. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935108654139
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 1, 1 - 824.
  • Clay, T. (1962) A key to the species of Actornithophilus Ferris with notes and descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 11 (5), 189 - 244, pls 4 - 11.
  • 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.