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Pseudomenopon pilosum

Description

Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763)

Pediculus pilosus Scopoli, 1763: 384.

Menopon tridens Burmeister, 1838: 440.

Pseudomenopon tridens (Nitzsch) [sic]; Ferris 1924: 63, fig. 4.

Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 302.

Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Price 1974: 73, figs 1–6, 11, 18, 21–22.

Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Price et al. 2003: 135.

Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Cicchino 2011: 102, figs 1–3, 8–13, 32, 42, 47.

Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Palma 2017: 77.

Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay & Hopkins 1951: 19).

Type host: Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758.

Chilean hosts: Fulica armillata Vieillot, 1817; Fulica cornuta Bonaparte, 1853.

Other hosts: Hydrophasianus chirurgus (Scopoli, 1786); Podica senegalensis (Vieillot, 1817); seven species of Fulica, and five species of Gallinula (see Price et al. 2003: 136).

Chilean localities: Antofagasta: Region II.

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean references: Price (1974: 75); Cicchino (2011: 103).

Other significant references: Ferris (1924); Clay & Hopkins (1951: 19); Tendeiro (1965a: 19, photos 2–3, 22, 32, 43, 52); Price (1974); Lakshminarayana (1977: 56); Palma (1996: 142); Martín-Mateo (2002: 42, figs 9–10); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Pseudomenopon pilosum is a frequently collected species from a large number of hosts (Palma 2017). Bartlett & Anderson (1987) demonstrated the transmission of the filarioid nematode Pelecitus fulicaeatrae (Diesing, 1861) by this louse.

Genus Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954

Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954: Rev. Bras. Entomol. 2, 150. Type species: Psittacobrosus burmeisteri kelloggi Carriker, 1954 = Psittacobrosus kelloggi Carriker, 1954 (by original designation).

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 41, 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
Pseudomenopon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Scopoli
Species
pilosum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763) sec. ́ & Palma, 2021

References

  • Scopoli, J. A. (1763) Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnaeana. Trattner, Wien, xxxvi + 421 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 119976
  • Burmeister, H. (1838) Mallophaga. In: Handbuch der Entomologie, Berlin: Enslin, 2 (1), 418 - 443.
  • Ferris, G. F. (1924) The mallophagan family Menoponidae. Parasitology, 16 (1), 55 - 66. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0031182000019879
  • 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
  • Price, R. D. (1974) A review of the genus Pseudomenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 67 (1), 73 - 84. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 67.1.73
  • 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.
  • Cicchino, A. C. (2011) Piojos (Insecta: Psocodea: Phthiraptera) parasitos de Gruiformes y Podicipediformes (Aves) en la Argentina. Una aproximacion sistematica, bioecologica y evolutiva. Thesis, Doctor in Science. Departamento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, 381 pp.
  • Palma, R. L. (2017) Phthiraptera (Insecta). A catalogue of parasitic lice from New Zealand. Fauna of New Zealand, 76, 1 - 400.
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  • 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
  • Tendeiro, J. (1965 a) Etudes sur les Mallophages. Observations sur le genre Pseudomenopon Mjoberg, 1910, avec description de six especes et une sous-espece nouvelles. Revista dos Estudos Gerais Universitarios de Mocambique, Series 4, 2, 1 - 88.
  • Lakshminarayana, K. V. (1977) Notes on the genus Pseudomenopon with remarks on host relationships. Angewandte Parasitologie, 18 (3), 152 - 162. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00236567708584429
  • 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.
  • Martin-Mateo, M. P. (2002) Fauna Iberica. Mallophaga, Amblycera. Vol. 20. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales & Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, 187 pp.
  • Bartlett, C. M. & Anderson, R. C. (1987) Pelecitus fulicaeatrae (Nematoda, Filarioidea) of coots (Gruiformes) and grebes (Podicipediformes): skin-inhabiting microfilariae and development in Mallophaga. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 65 (11), 2803 - 2812. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / z 87 - 423
  • Carriker, M. A. Jr. (1954) Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (XIII) - The Menoponidae of the Neotropical Psittacidae. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (Sao Paulo), 2, 145 - 173.