Review of Chinese species of the Oxylipeurus - complex (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae), with descriptions of two new genera and five new species
Author
Gustafsson, Daniel R.
Author
Lei, Lujia
Author
Chu, Xingzhi
Author
Zou, Fasheng
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-20
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201
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4742.2.1
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Reticulipeurus crossoptilon
(
Clay, 1938
)
(
Figs 13–14
,
28
,
54–56
,
74
,
83
)
Oxylipeurus baileyi crossoptilon
Clay, 1938: 173
, pl. X: fig 1.
Oxylipeurus crossoptilon
Clay, 1938
;
Hopkins & Clay 1952: 257
.
Reticulipeurus baileyi crossoptilon
(Clay)
;
Złotorzycka 1966: 112
.
Oxylipeurus crossoptilon
Clay, 1938
;
Price
et al
. 2003: 203
.
Type
host.
Crossoptilon crossoptilon crossoptilon
(Hodgson, 1838)
—white eared-pheasant.
Type
locality.
Szechwan
[=
Sichuan Province
,
China
]
.
Description.
Both sexes.
Head broad, frons broadly rounded (
Fig. 13–14
). Marginal carina slender. Dorsal preantennal suture extends far lateral to
ads
. Head chaetotaxy as in
Fig. 13
. Lateral margins of postantennal head convex. Thoracic and abdominal plates and chaetotaxy as in
Figs 13–14
. Reticulation extensive across pterosternal plate, metepisternum, tergopleurites, and sternal and female subgenital plate.
Male.
Antennae as in
Fig. 28
; size of scape tooth-like projection difficult to assess, as antennae of all examined males are slightly twisted; rugose area of flagellomere I extensive. Accessory sternal plates absent; stylus broad, lateral margins slightly concave; reticulation of subgenital plate absent (
Fig. 83
). Basal apodeme relatively broad (
Fig. 54
). Mesosome large, distal margin convergent, with median section concave, rugose areas broadening laterally; antero-lateral hooks prominent. Gonopore large (
Fig. 56
). Ventral sclerite as in
Fig. 56
, with square-shaped median extension on anterior margin; two pores visible on each side sublaterally on posterior margin, no submedian pores visible. Parameres stout, parameral heads large (
Fig. 55
);
pst1–2
close together near apical end of paramere. Measurements as in
Table 1
.
Female.
Tergopleurites IX+X and XI separate (
Fig. 14
). Subgenital plate diffuse, but seemingly shaped as in
Fig. 74
, separated medianly but with each part large; reticulation of subgenital plate weak. Vulval margin deeply and broadly concave (
Fig. 74
), with 20–21 short setae marginally on each side. Posterior lobes of abdomen slender and slightly extended. Subvulval plates broad, tapering somewhat anteriorly; proximal end reaching anterior to vulval margin. Measurements as in
Table 1
.
Type material examined.
Paratypes
:
2♂
,
1♀
,
Szechwan
[=
Sichuan province
,
China
], no date,
R
.
Meinertz- hagen, 1814,
NHMUK010682385
(
NHML
)
.
1♂
, same locality and collector,
Apr. 1913
, 3760,
NHMUK010682386
(
NHML
)
.