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Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget 1880

Description

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880: 572, pl. 48: figs 3–4.

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Kellogg 1906: 321.

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Clay 1951b: 1059, figs 1–7, 9–12.

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Price & Beer 1965: 128, figs 89–91.

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Galaz et al. 1999: 18, fig. 2.

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Price et al. 2003: 99.

Lectotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay 1951b: 1162).

Type host: Phoenicopterus ruber roseus Pallas, 1811.

Chilean host: Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina, 1782.

Other hosts: Phoenicopterus ruber ruber Linnaeus, 1758; Phoeniconaias minor (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1798); Phoenicoparrus jamesi (Sclater, 1886).

Chilean locality: Salar Surire: Region XV.

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean references: Price & Beer (1965); Galaz et al. (1999).

Other significant references: Clay (1951); Clay (1974: 484); Price et al. (2003); Palma & Price (2010: 145); Palma & Peck (2013: 17).

Remarks:Among the three species of Colpocephalum parasitic on flamingoes, C. heterosoma is the most widespread, recorded from four host species belonging to three genera (Price et al. 2003: 99).

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 19, 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
Colpocephalum
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Piaget
Species
heterosoma
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880 sec. ́ & Palma, 2021

References

  • Piaget, E. (1880) Les Pediculines. Essai Monographique. Two volumes. E. J. Brill, Leiden, xxxix + 714 pp., 56 pls.
  • Kellogg, V. L. (1906) Mallophaga from Argentina. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 14 (1), 45 - 49.
  • Clay, T. (1951 b) Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 4, 1159 - 1168, pl. 20. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935108654246
  • Price, R. D. & Beer, J. R. (1965) The Colpocephalum (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) of the Ciconiiformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 58 (1), 111 - 131. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 58.1.111
  • Galaz, J. L., Gaytan, P., Rubilar, L. & Brevis, C. (1999) Presencia de malofagos (Insecta: Phthiraptera) en crias de flamenco chileno (Phoenicopterus chilensis) en el Salar de Surire, I Region de Chile. Boletin Chileno de Ornitologia, 6 (1), 17 - 22.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Clay, T. (1974) The Phthiraptera (Insecta) parasitic on flamingoes (Phoenicopteridae: Aves). Journal of Zoology, London, 172, 483 - 490. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1974. tb 04380. x
  • Palma, R. L. & Peck, S. B. (2013) An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galapagos Islands. Zootaxa, 3627 (1), 1 - 87. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3627.1.1