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Quadraceps macrocephalus

Description

Quadraceps macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914) New record

Nirmus macrocephalus Waterston, 1914: 284, pl. 25: figs 2, 5.

Degeeriella macrocephala Waterston, 1914 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 117.

Quadraceps macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 313.

Quadraceps assimilis macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914); Timmermann 1953: 179.

Quadraceps assimilis macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914); Timmermann 1957: 60.

Quadraceps assimilis macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914); Złotorzycka 1967: 710.

Quadraceps assimilis macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914); Timmermann 1969a: 251, fig. 6a.

Quadraceps macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914); Palma 1996: 212.

Quadraceps macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914); Price et al. 2003: 225.

Syntypes ♂ ♀ in SAMS (see Palma 1996: 212).

Type host: Charadrius pecuarius Temminck, 1823.

Chilean host: Charadrius falklandicus Latham, 1790.

Other hosts: Charadrius alexandrinus Linnaeus, 1758; Charadrius alticola (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902); Charadrius collaris Vieillot, 1818; Charadrius melodus Ord, 1824; Charadrius ruficapillus Temminck, 1821; Charadrius sanctaehelenae (Harting, 1873); Charadrius venustus Fischer & Reichenow, 1884; Charadrius wilsonia Ord, 1814.

Chilean locality: Río Tres Brazos (Magallanes): Region XII.

Geographic distribution: Africa; Australasia; Eurasia; North, Central and South America.

Chilean reference: This catalogue.

Other significant references: Timmermann (1953); Timmermann (1957); Złotorzycka (1967); Timmermann (1969a); Palma (1996); Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: This is the first record of Quadraceps macrocephalus from Chile, based on one sample from Charadrius falklandicus 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 101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SAMS
Scientific name authorship
Waterston
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Psocodea
Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Quadraceps
Species
macrocephalus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Quadraceps macrocephalus (Waterston, 1914) sec. ́ & Palma, 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
  • Timmermann, G. (1953) Die Quadraceps - Arten (Mallophaga) der Regenpfeifer (Unterfamilie Charadriinae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 150 (7 / 8), 178 - 190.
  • Timmermann, G. (1957) Studien zu einer vergleichenden Parasitologie der Charadriiformes oder Regenpfeifervogel. Teil 1: Mallophaga. Parasitologische Schriftenreihe, 8, 1 - 204, 15 pls.
  • Zlotorzycka, J. (1967) Studien uber Quadraceps s. l. (Mallophaga, Quadraceptinae). Ubersicht der Arten und systematische Revision mit bisonderer Berucksichtigung der synhospitalen und allohospitalen Arten. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 37 (4), 705 - 785, 17 pls.
  • Timmermann, G. (1969 a) Neue Mallophagen aus dem Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Bonner zoologische Beitrage, 20 (1 / 3), 244 - 252.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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)