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Pseudonirmus gurlti

Description

Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882) New record

Lipeurus gurlti Taschenberg, 1882: 151, pl. 5: fig. 6.

Esthiopterum gurlti Taschenberg, 1882 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 135.

Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 303.

Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882); Timmermann 1961c: 35, figs 3, 5c.

Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882); Timmermann 1965: 115, fig. 52c, pl. 10: fig. 3.

Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882); Clay & Moreby 1967: 163, 168, figs 133, 137, 140.

Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882); Price et al. 2003: 221.

Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882); Palma 2017: 170.

Syntypes ♂ ♀, repository unknown, presumed lost (see Palma 2017: 171).

Type host: Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758).

Chilean host: Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758).

Other host: Daption capense australe Mathews, 1913.

Chilean localities: Not given.

Geographic distribution: Antarctica; Southern Ocean.

Chilean reference: This catalogue.

Other significant references: Harrison (1937: 26, fig. 2a); Clay (1940a: 298); Guimarães (1943: 425, fig. 1); Timmermann (1961c; 1965); Clay & Moreby (1967); Pilgrim & Palma (1982: 7); Palma (1996: 206); Price et al. (2003); Page et al. (2004: 638, 650); Palma (2010: 408); Palma (2017).

Remarks: This is the first record of Pseudonirmus gurlti from Chile, based on one sample of 23 males and females from Daption capense held in NHML (Shchedrina et al. 2017).

Genus Quadraceps Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1939

Quadraceps Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1939b. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (Series 11) 4, 453. Type species: Degeeriella vanelli (Denny, 1842) = Quadraceps charadrii hospes (Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1866) (by original designation).

Koeniginirmus Eichler, 1940b. Zool. Anz. 130, 101. Type species: Koeniginirmus punctatus (Nitzsch in Burmeister, 1838) = Quadraceps punctatus (Burmeister, 1838) (by original designation).

Szidatiella Eichler, 1944. Stettin. Entomol. Zeit. 105, 81. Type species: Docophorus elongatus Piaget, 1885 = Quadraceps elongatus (Piaget, 1885) (by original designation).

Carrikericeps Eichler & Złotorzycka, 1964. Deuts. Entomol. Zeits. (N.F.) 11 (4–5), 320. Type species: Quadraceps punensis Carriker, 1949 (by original designation).

Laminonirmus Złotorzycka, 1967. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 37 (4), 754. Type species: Koeniginirmus ornatus (Grube, 1851) = Quadraceps ornatus ornatus (Grube, 1851) (by original designation). As subgenus of Koeniginirmus Eichler, 1940b.

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

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Biodiversity

Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Pseudonirmus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Taschenberg
Species
gurlti
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudonirmus gurlti (Taschenberg, 1882) sec. ́ & Palma, 2021

References

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