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Falcolipeurus assessor

Description

Falcolipeurus assessor (Giebel, 1874) New record

Lipeurus assessor Giebel, 1874: 207.

Esthiopterum assessor Giebel, 1874 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 131.

Falcolipeurus assessor (Giebel, 1874); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 136.

Trollipeurus assessor (Giebel, 1879) [sic]; Złotorzycka 1963: 4, figs 1–2.

Trollipeurus kleinmachnowensis Złotorzycka 1963: 7, figs 7–9.

Falcolipeurus assessor (Giebel, 1874); Tandan & Dhanda 1963: 638, figs 7, 10.

Falcolipeurus assessor (Giebel, 1874); Price et al. 1997: 544.

Falcolipeurus assessor (Giebel, 1874); Price et al. 2003: 178.

Syntypes ♂ ♀, presumed lost (see Palma 2017: 28).

Type host: Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758.

Chilean host: Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758.

Other hosts: None.

Chilean localities: Not given.

Geographic distribution: Western South America.

Chilean reference: This catalogue.

Other significant references: Złotorzycka (1963); Tandan & Dhanda (1963); Price et al. (1997); Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: This is the first record of Falcolipeurus assessor from Chile, based on a sample from Vultur gryphus held in NHML (Shchedrina et al. 2017). Some records of lice from Vultur gryphus may be from birds captive in zoological gardens.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Falcolipeurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Psocodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Giebel
Species
assessor
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Falcolipeurus assessor (Giebel, 1874) sec. ́ & Palma, 2021

References

  • Giebel, C. G. A. (1874) Insecta epizoa. Die auf Saugetieren und Vogeln schmarotzenden Insecten nach Chr. L. Nitzsch's Nachlass bearbeitet. Otto Wigand, Leipzig, xvi + 308 pp., 20 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 66072
  • 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
  • Zlotorzycka, J. (1963) Studien uber Raubvogelfederlinge. I. Trollipeurus nov. gen., eine neue Mallophagengattung von Neuweltgeiern. Angewandte Parasitologie, 4 (1), 3 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02092185
  • Tandan, B. K & Dhanda, V. (1963) Falcolipeurus josephi, a new American mallophagan from caracaras of the genus Polyborus, and a key to allied species (Ischnocera: Philopteridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 56 (5), 634 - 639. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 56.5.634
  • 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.
  • Palma, R. L. (2017) Phthiraptera (Insecta). A catalogue of parasitic lice from New Zealand. Fauna of New Zealand, 76, 1 - 400.
  • 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)