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Austromenopon aegialitidis, sensu lato

Description

Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906) sensu lato

Menopon aegialitidis Durrant, 1906: 529, fig. 1c.

Menopon aegialitidis Durrant, 1906; Harrison 1916: 32.

Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 46.

Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906) sensu lato; Clay 1959: 165, fig. 7.

Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); Price et al. 2003: 90.

Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); González-Acuña et al. 2008b: 38, fig. 1.

Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); Palma 2017: 41.

Holotype probably in OSUM (see Palma 1996: 114).

Type host: Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758.

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

Other hosts: Vanellus miles novaehollandiae Stephens, 1819; Charadrius bicinctus exilis Falla, 1978, Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758); Vanellus coronatus (Boddaert, 1783); at least nine species of Charadrius (see Price et al. 2003: 90).

Chilean locality: Chillán: Region XVI.

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean reference: González-Acuña et al. (2008b).

Other significant references: Clay (1959); Palma (1996: 114); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2010: 407); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Austromenopon aegialitidis is a morphologically variable species from a wide range of hosts and in need of detailed systematic study.

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 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
OSUM
Family
Menoponidae
Genus
Austromenopon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Durrant
Species
aegialitidis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Austromenopon aegialitidis ́, 2021

References

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  • 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. (1959) Key to the species of Austromenopon Bedford (Mallophaga) parasitic on the Charadriiformes. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series B, 28 (11 - 12), 157 - 168. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1959. tb 00122. x
  • 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.
  • Palma, R. L. (2017) Phthiraptera (Insecta). A catalogue of parasitic lice from New Zealand. Fauna of New Zealand, 76, 1 - 400.
  • Palma, R. L. (1996) Laemobothriidae; Menoponidae; Ricinidae; Philopteridae. In: Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Vol. 26. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 106 - 230.
  • 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
  • Palma, R. L. (2010) Order Phthiraptera: Lice. In: Gordon, D. P. (Ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Kingdom Animalia - Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, pp. 294 - 296 + 407 - 409.