A new species and five new records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) from an isolated population of the solitary tinamou Tinamus solitarius (Aves: Tinamiformes)
Author
Valim, Michel P.
Author
Silveira, Luís F.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3838
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127
142
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3838.1.8
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1175-5326
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Ornicholax alienus
(
Giebel, 1874
)
Goniocotes alienus
Giebel, 1874
: 191
.
Ornicholax robustus taoi
Carriker (1936: 171, pl. 30, fig. 1)
.
Ornicholax solitarius
Guimarães & Lane (1937: 3, fig. 1)
.
Ornicholax alienus carrikeri
Guimarães (1948: 169, fig. 6)
.
Ornicholax alienus
(
Giebel, 1874
)
;
Hopkins & Clay (1952: 252)
.
Material examined:
1♂
, 4♀ (
MZUSP
#3204–3207),
Mata
do Othon (
09°50'S
;
35°54'W
), Barra de São Miguel, Alagoas,
Brazil
,
21 Feb. 1979
, D.M. Teixeira coll. 1♀ (
MZUSP
#5768), Roteiro (
09°50'S
;
35°58'W
), Alagoas,
Brazil
,
Nov. 1978
, P.M. Nardelli coll. (W.C.A. Bokermann leg.)
Remarks:
This species is commonly found on
T. solitarius solitarius
(see
Guimarães & Lane 1937
,
Kéler 1938
) and also occurs on
T. tao tao
(see
Guimarães 1942b
,
1948
). The material listed above was identified by comparison with those mounted and determined by L.R. Guimarães, deposited in MZUSP collection, as well as with the redescription by
Kéler (1938)
.