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Philopteroides Mey 2004

  • 1. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
  • 2. Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
  • 3. School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, USA.

Description

Genus Philopteroides Mey, 2004

Philopterus Nitzsch, 1818: 288 (in partim).

Docophorus Nitzsch, 1818: 289 (in partim).

Bitrabeculus Uchida, 1948: 317 (in partim).

Philopteroides Mey, 2004: 173.

Tyranniphilopterus Mey, 2004: 182 (in partim).

Type species

Philopteroides novaezelandiae Mey, 2004: 174, by original designation.

Remarks

The species of Philopteroides parasitizing bulbuls appear to form a homogenous group within the Philopteroides mitsusui species group sensu Valim & Palma (2013). In particular, the species known from bulbuls are united by the following characters: Mesosome covers central ⅓ of distal margin of basal apodeme (Figs 109, 115); parameres curved medianly (Figs 109–110, 115–116); at least some of sternal plates III–VI reduced in female, with accessory lateral sternal plates (if visible) clearly separated from central sternal plates in at least some segments (Figs 107, 113). In males of most species, at least sternal plate III is reduced in the same way (Fig. 106), but in Ph. cucphoungensis the central sternal plate may be connected to the accessory lateral sternal plates (Mey 2004: fig. 23d), and in Ph. holosternus sp. nov. male sternite III is entire (Fig. 112).

Notes

Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Najer, Tomas, Zou, Fasheng & Bush, Sarah E., 2022, The ischnoceran chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) of bulbuls (Aves: Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae), with descriptions of 18 new species, pp. 1-88 in European Journal of Taxonomy 800 on page 57, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.800.1683, http://zenodo.org/record/6358666

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Mey
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Psocodea
Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Philopteroides
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Philopteroides Mey, 2004 sec. Gustafsson, Najer, Zou & Bush, 2022

References

  • Mey E. 2004. Zur Taxonomie, Verbreitung und parasitophyletischer Evidenz des Philopterus - Komplexes (Insecta, Phthiraptera, Ischnocera). Ornithologischer Anzeiger 43: 149 - 203.
  • Nitzsch C. L. 1818. Die Familien und Gattungen der Thierinsekten (Insecta epizoica); als ein Prodromus einer Naturgeschichte derselben. E. F. Germar's Magazin der Entomologie 3: 261 - 318.
  • Uchida S. 1948. Studies on the biting-lice (Mallophaga) of Japan and adjacent territories (Suborder Ischnocera Pt I). The Japanese Medical Journal 1: 303 - 326. https: // doi. org / 10.7883 / yoken 1948.1.303
  • Valim M. P. & Palma R. L. 2013. Three new species of the genus Philopteroides Mey, 2004 (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae) from New Zealand. ZooKeys 297: 71 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 297.5118