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Gyropus cercomydis Werneck 1942

Description

Gyropus cercomydis Werneck, 1942

Gyropus cercomydis Werneck 1942: 25, fig. 4 (female head, dorso-ventral view), fig. 8 (detail of the endomeres and mesomeral plate), fig. 21 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 22 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 23 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 24 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view). Type locality: Brazil, Bahia, Xiquexique, Rio São Francisco. Type host: Cercomys laurentius (= Thrichomys a. laurenteus (Thomas)). Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female and two female paratypes held by FIOC. One male and one female paratype in alcohol, vial 209 in support 21, at FIOC.

Hopkins and Clay 1952: 160 (checklist). Emerson, and Price 1981: 44 (host-parasite checklist). Cicchino and Castro 1990: 322 (checklist of Gyropus species on Echimyidae). Cardoso-de-Almeida et al. 2003: 235 (list of type material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz). Price et al. 2003: 76 (checklist).

Eogyropus cercomydis, Eichler 1952: 76 (replacement of genus).

Distribution. BRAZIL (Bahia).

Host. Thrichomys apereoides laurenteus (Echimyidae).

Notes

Published as part of Valim, Michel P. & Linardi, Pedro Marcos, 2008, A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae), pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 1899 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274532

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Werneck
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Phthiraptera
Family
Gyropidae
Genus
Gyropus
Species
cercomydis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gyropus cercomydis Werneck, 1942 sec. Valim & Linardi, 2008

References

  • Werneck, F. L. (1942) Os Malofagos dos Punares. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 2, 17 - 27.
  • Hopkins, G. H. E. & Clay, T. (1952) A Check List of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. British Museum of Natural History, London, 362 pp.
  • Emerson, K. C. & Price, R. D. (1981) A host-parasite list of the Mallophaga on mammals. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, 12, (1), 1 - 72.
  • Cicchino, A. C. & Castro, D. del C. (1990) A new species of Gyropus Nitzsch, 1818 (Phthiraptera, Amblycera, Gyropidae) from Proechimys albispinus (I. Geoffroy) (Mammalia, Rodentia, Echimyidae). Acta Parasitologica, 35, (4), 319 - 323.
  • Cardoso-de-Almeida, M, Linardi, P. M. & Costa, J. (2003) The type specimens of the chewing lice (Insecta, Mallophaga) deposited in the entomolgical collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 98, (2), 233 - 240.
  • 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. The chewing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication, Illinois, 24, pp. 1 - 448.
  • Eichler, W. (1952). Notulae Mallophagologicae. XXVI. Rhombiceps n. g. und andere neue Federlingsgattungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 149, (3 / 4), 74 - 78.