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Reticulipeurus (Forcipurellus) Gustafsson & Zou 2023

  • 1. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilisation, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilisation, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, 105 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8868 - 8310
  • 2. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilisation, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilisation, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, 105 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8913 - 5651

Description

Reticulipeurus (Forcipurellus) species 3

Host. Arborophila javanica (Gmelin, 1789) —chestnut-bellied partridge.

Remarks. We examined a single female, which appears to be most similar to that of R. (F.) formosanus. However, the preantennal head of this female is more broadly rounded, and the shape of the vulval margin (including the shape of the lateral lobes) appears to be different. More specimens, in particular males, are needed to elucidate the identity of the Reticulipeurus from Arborophila javanica. Lipeurus unicolor Piaget, 1880 —described from Arborophila javanica —has been placed in the genus Oxylipeurus by Clay (1938) and followed by Price et al. (2003). However, we regard it as a species of Megalipeurus following Gustafsson et al. (2020b) (see Table 2).

Specimen examined. 1♀, Java [Indonesia], May 1904, coll. R. Meinertzhagen, 3599, NHMUK010682699 (NHML).

Notes

Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R. & Zou, Fasheng, 2023, Species of Reticulipeurus Kéler, 1958 (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Oxylipeurus- complex) parasitic on species of Arborophila, with description of a new subgenus and three new species, pp. 496-520 in Zootaxa 5284 (3) on page 515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7929559

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHML , R
Material sample ID
NHMUK010682699
Scientific name authorship
Gustafsson & Zou
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Psocodea
Family
Philopteridae
Genus
Reticulipeurus
Taxon rank
subGenus
Taxonomic concept label
Reticulipeurus (Forcipurellus) Gustafsson, 2023 sec. Gustafsson & Zou, 2023

References

  • Piaget, E. (1880) Les Pediculines. Essai monographique. E. J. Brill, Leiden, xxxix + 714 pp., 56 pls.
  • Clay, T. (1938) A revision of the genera and species of Mallophaga occurring on Gallinaceous hosts. Part I. Lipeurus and related genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Series B, 108, 109 - 204, 14 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1938. tb 00026. x
  • Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A., Palma, R. L., Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. (2003) The chewing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication, 24, i - x + 1 - 501 pp.