A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae) Author Valim, Michel P. Author Linardi, Pedro Marcos text Zootaxa 2008 1899 1 24 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.274532 aa7a2f2b-ea55-4ae2-863a-93bf3bdde535 1175-5326 274532 Gyropus lineatus Neumann, 1912 b Gyropus lineatus Neumann 1912b : 218 , fig. 4 (female habitus, dorsal view), fig. 5 (sternal plates of female). Type locality: Brazil , Pará. Type host: Kerodon moco (= Kerodon rupestris ). Typology: “D’après une centaine d’individues ɗ et Ψ, recueillis, en même temps que G . porcelli perfoliatus , sur le Moco ( Kerodon moco Fr. Cuv. ), au Para ( Brésil ), par Göldi (Muséum de Paris)” (see Neumann 1912b : 220 ), syntypes held by ENVT. Harrison 1916 : 31 (checklist). Werneck 1936a : 424 (male and female redescriptions), fig. 40 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 41 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 42 (female head, dorso-ventral view), fig. 43 (sternal plates), fig. 44 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 45 (male genitalia, dorsal view). Werneck 1948 : 54 (citation). Hopkins and Clay 1952 : 161 (checklist). Emerson and Price 1981 : 40 (host-parasite checklist). Guitton et al . 1986 : 233 (supposed new host record and geographical data). Price et al . 2003 : 77 (checklist). Bittencourt and Rocha 2002 : 422 (supposed new host record and spatial distribution on host) Bittencourt and Rocha 2003 : 794 (supposed mean abundance data). Tetragyropus lineatus , Ewing 1924 : 21 (redescription and key to species included in Tetragyropus ). Werneck 1934a : 176 (synoxenism with Monothoracius penidoi ). Werneck 1934b : 281 (citation). Distribution. BRAZIL (Ceará, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco). Hosts. Kerodon rupestris Wied , + Microcavia australis (Caviidae) , + Proechimys mincae , + P . iheringi , + Proechimys sp. ( Echimyidae ). Remarks. The three species of Echimyidae cited as a host to G . lineatus are clearly either result of a misidentification of the lice ( Guitton et al . 1986 ; Bittencourt and Rocha 2002 , 2003 ) or contamination among museum skins ( Ewing 1924 ). This is one of the only two species named in Gyropus found exclusively on Caviidae . The finding of an immature on a skin of Microcavia australis ( Ewing 1924: 22 ) needs further investigation.