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Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari " Clay

Description

Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780) New record

Pediculus lari O. Fabricius, 1780: 219.

Philopterus lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Harrison 1916: 97 (as junior synonym of Philopterus gonothorax Giebel, 1871 [sic]).

Saemundssonia lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 332.

Saemundssonia lari lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Clay & Hopkins 1954: 249, figs 37–39.

Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Price et al. 2003: 234.

Neotype ♂ in NHML (Clay & Hopkins 1954: 249).

Type host: Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767.

Galápagos host: Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831.

Galápagos locality: Isla Floreana.

Galápagos references: This paper.

Other significant references: Clay & Hopkins (1954: 248); Timmermann (1957: 42, figs 9, 12); Palma (1996: 222); Price et al. (2003: 234).

Material examined: 1 female (MONZ).

Remarks: This is a very common louse species parasitic on a wide range of gull hosts (Price et al. 2003: 234), including Larus pipixcan. Records of “ Docophorus lari ” in Kellogg & Kuwana (1902: 463) and Kellogg (1906: 317) refer to Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) creagrusa (see above).

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 page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3627.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5261238

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MONZ , NHML
Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Saemundssonia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
" Clay
Species
lari
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (Fabricius, 1780) sec. Palma & Peck, 2013

References

  • Fabricius, O. (1780) Fauna Groenlandica systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata. J. G. Rothe, Hafniae & Leipzig. xvi + 452 pp., pl. 1.
  • Harrison, L. (1916) The genera and species of Mallophaga. Parasitology, 9 (1), 1 - 156. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000005989
  • Hopkins, G. H. E. & Clay, T. (1952) A check list of the genera & species of Mallophaga. Trustees of the British Museum, London. 362 pp.
  • Hopkins, G. H. E. & Timmermann, G. (1954) A revision of the species of Quadraceps (Mallophaga) parasitic on Tringinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 105 (8), 131 - 150, 2 pls. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1954. tb 00780. x
  • 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. (1957) Studien zu einer vergleichenden Parasitologie der Charadriiformes oder Regenpfeifervogel. 1: Mallophaga. Parasitologische Schriftenreihe, 8, 1 - 204, pls 1 - 15.
  • Palma, R. L. (1996) Laemobothriidae; Menoponidae; Ricinidae; Philopteridae. Pp 106 - 230. I n: Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. Volume 26, xiv + 414 pp.
  • Kellogg, V. L. & Kuwana, S. I. (1902) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898 - 1899. X. Entomological results (8). Mallophaga from birds. Proceedings of the Washington. Academy of Sciences, 4, 457 - 499, pls 28 - 31.
  • Kellogg, V. L. (1906) A second collection of Mallophaga from the birds of the Galapagos and Revillagigedo Islands and neighboring waters. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 32, 315 - 324.