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
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3838.1.8
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1175-5326
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Key to species of
Heptagoniodes
(adult males only)
(updated from
Guimarães 1948
)
1 Head with anterior margin of temples sharply pointed (
Fig. 4
); mesosomal plate with lateral projections (
Figs 10, 12
)...... 2
- Head with anterior margin of temples rounded (
Fig. 3
); mesosomal plate without lateral projections (
Fig. 11
)............. 4
2 Genitalia with mesosome as in
Fig. 12
................................................
H. guimaraesi
Valim
n. sp.
- Genitalia with mesosome as in
Fig. 10..................................................................... 3
3 Total length <
2.50 mm
; mesosomal plate short (
0.18 mm
).............................
H. dimorphus
Carriker, 1944
- Total length>
2.60 mm
; mesosomal plate long (
0.30 mm
).......................
H. agonus
(Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1866)
4 Post-ocular emargination very shallow, less pronounced; temples truncated. Mesosome as a sclerotized, tubular structure (see Plate XXX, figs 3, 3a, in
Carriker, 1936
).............................................
H. mirabilis
Carriker, 1936
- Post-ocular emargination deep, well pronounced (
Fig. 3
); temples nearly rounded (
Fig. 3
). Mesosome as a non-sclerotized, rugose, tubular structure (
Fig. 11
)............................................
H. clayae
Guimarães & Lane, 1937