<strong> An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands </ strong>
Author
Palma, Ricardo L.
ricardop@tepapa.govt.nz
Author
Peck, Stewart B.
ricardop@tepapa.govt.nz
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-03-18
3627
1
1
87
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3627.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3627.1.1
1175-5326
5261238
B28B2463-1BA5-458A-B0BF-F311F978917A
Trabeculus fuscoclypeatus
(
Johnston & Harrison, 1912
)
sensu lato
New record
Philopterus fuscoclypeatus
Johnston & Harrison, 1912: 368
, fig. 4.
Giebelia fuscoclypeata
(
Johnston & Harrison, 1912
)
;
Harrison 1916: 144
.
Trabeculus fuscoclypeatus
(
Johnston & Harrison, 1912
)
;
Hopkins & Clay 1952: 349
.
Trabeculus fuscoclypeatus
(
Johnston & Harrison, 1912
)
;
Timmermann 1959: 491
, fig. 5.
Holotype
Nymph in
MONZ
(
Palma, Lovis & Tither 1989: 45
).
Type host:
Pterodroma neglecta neglecta
(Schlegel, 1863)
.
Galápagos
host:
Pterodroma phaeopygia
(Salvin, 1876)
.
Galápagos locality:
Isla
Santa Cruz.
Galápagos
references: This paper.
Other significant references:
Timmermann (1959: 491
, fig. 5);
Timmermann (1965: 129
, fig. 69);
Price
et al
. (2003: 244)
.
Material examined:
68 males
,
53 females
and 23 nymphs (3 samples,
MONZ
)
.
Remarks:
Pterodroma phaeopygia
is endemic to the
Galápagos Islands
. Although
Dickinson (2003: 74)
listed it as the subspecies
Pterodroma phaeopygia phaeopygia
, we regard it as a full species as well as
Pterodroma sandwichensis
(Ridgway, 1884)
, following
Browne
et al.
(1997: 814)
. The material examined from
Pterodroma phaeopygia
differs in some features from typical
Trabeculus fuscoclypeatus
. However, we do not consider that such differences justify naming a new taxon; hence we qualify the samples from
Pt. phaeopygia
as “
sensu lato
”.
This is the first record of
Trabeculus fuscoclypeatus
from the
Galápagos Islands
, and a new host-louse association for
Pterodroma phaeopygia
. Four other species of
Pterodroma
are listed in
Price
et al.
(2003: 244)
as hosts of this louse species.