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Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari, sensu lato

Description

Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780) sensu lato

Pediculus lari O. Fabricius, 1780: 219.

Docophorus gonothorax Giebel, 1874: 450.

Philopterus lari O. Fabricius, 1780 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 97 (as junior synonym of Philopterus gonothorax Giebel, 1871 [sic]).

Philopterus gonothorax Giebel, 1871 [sic]; Harrison 1937: 21.

Saemundssonia gonothorax Giebel, 1871 [sic]; Timmermann 1949: 4, figs 1–3.

Saemundssonia gonothorax (Giebel, 1874); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 331.

Saemundssonia lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 332.

Saemundssonia lari lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Clay & Hopkins 1954: 249, figs 37–39.

Saemundssonia lari (O. Fabricius, 1780) s. l.; Pilgrim & Palma 1982: 22.

Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Price et al. 2003: 234.

Saemundssonia lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); González-Acuña et al. 2006a: 189.

Saemundssonia lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); González-Acuña et al. 2011: 301.

Saemundssonia lari; Beltrán-Saavedra 2015: 39.

Saemundssonia lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); González-Acuña et al. 2020b: 5, fig. 2d.

Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780) sensu lato; Palma 2017: 201.

Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay & Hopkins 1954: 249, pl. 11: fig. 5).

Type host: Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767.

Chilean hosts: Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein, 1823; Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831.

Other hosts: Other 31 species of Larus (see Price et al. 2003: 234); Gabianus pacificus (Latham, 1802); Pagophila eburnea (Phipps, 1774); Rissa brevirostris (Bruch, 1853); Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758); Xema sabini (Sabine, 1819).

Chilean localities: Santo Domingo (Valparaíso): Region V; Talcahuano: Region VIII; Río Lluta: Region XV.

Geographic distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Chilean references: González-Acuña et al. (2006a); González-Acuña et al. (2011); Beltrán-Saavedra (2015); González-Acuña et al. (2020b).

Other significant references: Harrison (1937); Clay & Hopkins (1954); Timmermann (1957a: 42, figs 9, 12); Clay & Moreby (1967: 165, 169, figs 163–167); Pilgrim & Palma (1982); Palma (1996: 222); Price et al. (2003); Martín-Mateo (2009: 117, fig. 29); Palma & Peck (2013: 60); Palma (2010: 409); (Palma 2012: 44, fig. 14); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari is a morphologically variable “head & neck” louse frequently collected from many species of gulls. Palma (2017: 202) discussed the sensu lato status of Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari.

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 pages 107-108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHML
Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Saemundssonia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
O. Fabricius
Species
lari
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari ́, 2021

References

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