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Actornithophilus gracilis

Description

Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880)

Colpocephalum gracile Piaget, 1880: 555, pl. 46: fig. 5.

Colpocephalum gracile Piaget, 1880; Harrison 1916: 49.

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

Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880); Clay 1962: 202, 242.

Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880); Price et al. 2003: 83.

Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880); González-Acuña et al. 2008b: 38, fig. 2.

Syntypes ♂ N in NHML (see Clay 1951a: 181).

Type host: “ Platalea alba Scopoli, 1786 ”, in error (see Clay 1962: 242).

Chilean host: Vanellus chilensis chilensis (Molina, 1782).

Other host: Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Chilean localities: Dalcahue (Chiloé): Region X; Chillán: Region XVI.

Geographic distribution: Eurasia; Central and South America; northern Africa.

Chilean references: González-Acuña et al. (2008b); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Clay (1962); Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: Dalcahue (Chiloé) is a new locality record for Actornithophilus gracilis in Chile, based on specimens from Vanellus chilensis chilensis held in NHML (Shchedrina et al. 2017).

Notes

Published as part of Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 5077 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHML
Family
Menoponidae
Genus
Actornithophilus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Piaget
Species
gracilis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880) sec. ́ & Palma, 2021

References

  • Piaget, E. (1880) Les Pediculines. Essai Monographique. Two volumes. E. J. Brill, Leiden, xxxix + 714 pp., 56 pls.
  • Harrison, L. (1916) The genera and species of Mallophaga. Parasitology, 9 (1), 1 - 156. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 102856
  • Hopkins, G. H. E. & Clay, T. (1952) A check list of the genera & species of Mallophaga. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 362 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 118844
  • 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, 8 pls.
  • Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A. & Palma, R. L. (2003) World checklist of chewing lice with host associations and keys to families and genera. In: Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A., Palma, R. L., Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. (Eds.), The chewing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, pp. 1 - 448.
  • Gonzalez-Acuna, D., Olmedo, P. & Cicchino, A. (2008 b). Parasitos de Vanellus chilensis chilensis (Aves, Charadriidae) en Chillan, centrosur de Chile. Boletin Chileno de Ornitologia, 14 (1), 36 - 48.
  • Clay, T. (1951 a) Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 4, 173 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935108654139
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth Edition. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, iv + 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
  • Shchedrina, O., Allan, E. L., Brown, P., Livermore, L. & Smith, V. S. (2017) Dataset: Phthiraptera collection. Natural History Museum Data Portal. Available from: https: // data. nhm. ac. uk / dataset / phthiraptera-collection (accessed 1 November 2021)