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 cercomydis Werneck, 1942 Gyropus cercomydis Werneck 1942 : 25 , fig. 4 (female head, dorso-ventral view), fig. 8 (detail of the endomeres and mesomeral plate), fig. 21 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 22 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 23 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 24 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view). Type locality: Brazil , Bahia, Xiquexique, Rio São Francisco. Type host: Cercomys laurentius (= Thrichomys a . laurenteus (Thomas)) . Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female and two female paratypes held by FIOC. One male and one female paratype in alcohol, vial 209 in support 21, at FIOC. Hopkins and Clay 1952 : 160 (checklist). Emerson, and Price 1981 : 44 (host-parasite checklist). Cicchino and Castro 1990 : 322 (checklist of Gyropus species on Echimyidae ). Cardoso-de-Almeida et al . 2003 : 235 (list of type material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz). Price et al . 2003 : 76 (checklist). Eogyropus cercomydis , Eichler 1952 : 76 (replacement of genus). Distribution. BRAZIL (Bahia). Host. Thrichomys apereoides laurenteus (Echimyidae) .