Description of a new species of Ectinorus (E. spiculatus) (Siphonaptera, Rhopalopsyllidae) from Argentina and a review of the subgenus Ichyonus Smit, 1987
Author
Hastriter, Michael W.
Author
Sage, Richard D.
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ZooKeys
2011
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.124.1688
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.124.1688
1313-2970-124-1
Ectinorus
(Ichyonus) angularis Smit and Rosicky
Figs 1, 4, and 7
Ectinorus onychius angularis
Smit and Rosicky 1972
: 366;
Smit 1987
: 122;
Beaucournu and Gallardo 1992
: 100;
Alarcon
2000
: 13. stat. n.
Material Examined.
Chile, [Magallanes Region]: Estancia Pudeto, W of Lago Sarmiento, [
51°05'S
,
73°00'W
, ex
Akodon
sp.], 18 II 1969, M. Rozehnal (1 pair of paratypes) (BMNH).
Diagnosis.
Male distinguished from other species of
Ichyonus
by large lobular crochet that has a heavily sclerotized ventral margin and convoluted folds on the ventro-caudal margin (Fig. 4). The ventro-caudal hook of the telomere is also much longer and robust, its apex hooking upward well beyond middle of telomere (Fig. 1). This extends less than half the length of the telomere in other species. The upper portion of the acetabulum far below middle of anterior margin of telomere (Fig. 1). The single known female specimen may be distinguished from females of
Ectinorus onychius
by a much shorter anal stylet (cfFigs 7 and 8).
Remarks.
Known only from a single collection in the extreme southern limits of Chile; little can be said of its host preferences. The type locality of
Ectinorus angularis
occurs at the lowest elevation of the three species of
Ichyonus
at ~40m. The female is indistinguishable from females of
Ectinorus onychius
with the exception of the much shorter anal stylet. The anal stylet on both sides of the single specimen examined appears the same. Two additional females (paratypes) reportedly exist in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, but they could not be obtained for examination.
Smit and Rosicky (1972)
examined all three of the known females at the time of their description. Although they did not state that the anal stylet was similarly short in all three specimens, Smit (1987:124, fig. 263) subsequently illustrated the anal stylet of the allotype. Additional collections will refute or substantiate the value of this character.