Three new species of chewing lice of the genus Emersoniella Tendeiro, 1965 (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Papua New Guinean kingfishers and kookaburras (Aves: Coraciiformes: Alcedinidae)
Author
Gustafsson, Daniel R.
Author
Bush, Sarah E.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3796
3
528
544
journal article
45742
10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.7
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Emersoniella regis
Emerson & Price, 1978
(
Figs 6
a–d)
Type
host.
Clytoceyx rex rex
Sharpe, 1880
(
Coraciiformes
:
Alcedinidae
)—shovel-billed kookaburra
Measurements.
Male (n = 2): TL: 1.89–1.92 (1.91); HL: 0.57–0.58 (0.58); HW: 0.60–0.61 (0.61); PRW: 0.33–0.33 (0.33); PTW: 0.46–0.47 (0.47); AW: 0.70–0.71 (0.71). Female (n = 2): TL: 2.12–2.15 (2.14); HL: 0.61–0.61 (0.61): HW: 0.65–0.66 (0.66). PRW: 0.34–0.35 (0.34); PTW: 0.49–0.50 (0.50); AW: 0.77–0.78 (0.77).
Remarks.
This species was only partially illustrated in the original description (head outline and male genitalia). Therefore, based on
paratypes
, we here illustrate other diagnostic features of this species to aid comparisons with other species treated in this paper (
Figs 6
a–d).
FIGURE 5.
Emersoniella halcyonis
ex
Actenoides hombroni
: (a) male head, dorsal and ventral side; (b) male pterothorax and abdomen, dorsal and ventral side; (c) male genitalia; (d) female terminalia and vulval margin, dorsal and ventral side.
FIGURE 6.
Emersoniella regis
ex
Clytoceyx rex rex
: (a) male head, dorsal and ventral side; (b) male pterothorax and abdomen, dorsal and ventral side; (c) male genitalia; (d) female terminalia and vulval margin, dorsal and ventral side.
Material examined.
Paratypes
:
2 males
and
2 females
,
PAPUA
NEW
GUINEA
: East Sepik District, Wewak,
23. X. 1972
, no collector, host
101671
(PIPeR).