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Gyropus ovalis Burmeister 1838

Creators

  • 1. Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6269 - 8390
  • 2. Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6269 - 8390 & Institute of Pathology, Laboratory and Forensic Medicine (I-PPerForM), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2254 - 2743
  • 3. Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4493 - 0395

Description

Gyropus ovalis Burmeister, 1838

Gyropus ovalis Burmeister, 1838: 443.

Gyropus turbinatus Piaget, 1880: 612, pl. 50: fig. 7.

Allogyropus turbinatus (Piaget); Ewing, 1924: 20.

Gyropus recifensis Torres, 1938: 279, figs 1–4.

Macrogyropus mexicanus Zavaleta, 1946: 438, figs 2G–L.

Gyropus ovalis Burmeister, 1838; Werneck 1948: 53.

Gyropus ovalis Burmeister, 1838; Cheah 1988: 25.

Gyropus ovalis Burmeister, 1838; Price et al. 2003: 77.

Type host: “Savia [sic] cobaya ” = Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Guinea pig.

Type locality: Not given in the original description.

Malaysian host: Cavia porcellus.

Malaysian locality: Ipoh (Perak) Peninsular Malaysia (Cheah 1988).

Geographical distribution: Worldwide, except Antarctica.

Remarks: Commonly known as the oval guinea pig louse, Gyropus ovalis was reported from laboratory guinea pigs in the Veterinary Research Institute, Ipoh, by Cheah (1988). This is the only record of G. ovalis in Malaysia.

Notes

Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, pp. 40-60 in Zootaxa 5263 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7797797

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Biodiversity

Family
Gyropidae
Genus
Gyropus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Burmeister
Species
ovalis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Gyropus ovalis Burmeister, 1838 sec. Kazim, Houssaini, Tappe & Heo, 2023

References

  • Burmeister, H. (1838) Mallophaga. In: Handbuch der Entomologie. Enslin, Berlin, 2 (1), 418 - 443.
  • Piaget, E. (1880) Les Pediculines. Essai Monographique. Volumes 1 - 2. E. J. Brill, Leide, xxxix + 714 pp., 56 pls.
  • Ewing, H. E. (1924) On the taxonomy, biology, and distribution of the biting lice of the family Gyropidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 63 (20), 1 - 42. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.63 - 2489.1
  • Torres, J. (1938) Sobre um parasito (Mallaphaga [sic!] - Gyropidae) de Cavia cobaya (Gyropus recifensis n. sp. ou G. ovalis N. 2). Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Veterinaria, 8, 279 - 288.
  • Zavaleta, D. (1946) Dos nuevas especies de la familia Gyropidae encontradas en los cuyes de Mexico. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, 16, 435 - 444.
  • Werneck, F. L. (1948) Os malofagos de mamiferos. Parte I: Amblycera e Ischnocera (Philopteridae e parte de Trichodectidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, Special Volume, 1 - 243 pp.
  • Cheah, T. S. (1988) A record of the finding of the Mallophagan (biting louse) Gyropus ovalis on guinea pigs. Journal Sekolah Teknologi Makmal Veterinar (Malaysia), 5: 25 - 28.
  • Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A. & Palma, R. L. (2003) World checklist of chewing lice with host associations and keys to families and genera. Pp. 1 - 448. In: Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A., Palma, R. L., Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. The chewing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. x + 501 pp.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Volume 1. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, iv + 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542