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Brueelia cyclothorax

  • 1. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Library of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, 105 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong Province, China.
  • 2. Research Administration and Development, University of Limpopo, South Africa. & DSI-NRF SARChI Chair, Department of Biodiversity, University of Limpopo, South Africa.
  • 3. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Library of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, 105 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong Province, China. & Department of Biodiversity, University of Limpopo, South Africa. & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Library of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, 105 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong Province, China.

Description

Brueelia cyclothorax (Burmeister, 1838)

Nirmus cyclothorax Burmeister, 1838: 429.

Nirmus subtilis Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1874: 137.

Bruëlia subtilis obligata Eichler, 1954: 63.

Type host: Passer montanus montanus (Linnaeus, 1758) —tree sparrow.

Type locality: None given, probably Germany, given that Nitzsch’s collection was from Germany.

Other hosts: Passer domesticus domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) —house sparrow. Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis (Temminck, 1820) —Spanish sparrow. Passer montanus saturatus Stejneger, 1885.

Our South African samples have been compared with other specimens of Brueelia cyclothorax from Europe, North America, and Asia and found to be conspecific. This is the first record of B. cyclothorax from South Africa (Gustafsson et al. 2019a); Brueelia cyclothorax will be redescribed elsewhere (D. R.G. in prep.).

Material examined (non-types). Ex Passer domesticus: 1♂, 1♀, Sappi Trust Farm, KwaMbonambi, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 28 Apr. 2015, coll. A. Halajian, 2.38838 (NHML). 1♂, same data, 2.38842 (NHML). 1♂, 1♀, Old Herbarium, University of Limpopo, Limpopo Province, South Africa, 11 Sep. 2014, coll. A. Halajian, ring FB06249 (NHML).

Notes

Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Grossi, Alexandra A., Halajian, Ali & Engelbrecht, Derek, 2024, New species and new records of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) from South Africa, pp. 88-104 in Zootaxa 5446 (1) on pages 99-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5446.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/11084635

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHML
Material sample ID
FB06249
Event date
2014-09-11 , 2015-04-28
Verbatim event date
2014-09-11 , 2015-04-28
Scientific name authorship
Burmeister
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Psocodea
Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Brueelia
Species
cyclothorax
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Brueelia cyclothorax (Burmeister, 1838) sec. Gustafsson, Grossi, Halajian & Engelbrecht, 2024

References

  • Burmeister, H. (1838) Mallophaga Nitzsch. In: Handbuch der Entomologie. Zweiter Band. Besondere Entomologie. Zweite Abteilung. Lauskerfe. Gymnognatha. Zweiter Halfte. Vulgo Neuroptera. 2 (1). Theod. Chr. Fried. Enslin, Berlin, pp. 418 - 443.
  • Eichler, W. (1954) Deutsche Federlinge. I. Genus Bruelia [sic]. Naturwissenschaftliches Museum Nachrichten, Aschaffenburg, Germany, 42, 59 - 66.
  • Gustafsson, D. R., Zou, F., Oslejskova, L., Najer, T. & Sychra, O. (2019 a) Four new species of Brueelia Keler, 1936 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) from African hosts, with a redescription of Nirmus bicurvatus Piaget, 1880. European Journal of Taxonomy, 507, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2019.507