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 martini iheringi
Werneck, 1948
Gyropus martini iheringi
Werneck 1948
: 64
, fig. 53 (detail of the male genital sclerite, dorsal view), fig. 54 (detail of the male genital sclerite, ventral view).
Type
locality:
Brazil
, Espírito Santo, Santa Teresa, Floresta da Caixa d’água.
Type
host:
Proechimys iheringi
(=
Trinomys iheringi
). Typology:
Holotype
male, ‘allotype’ female, four male, and four female
paratypes
desposited at FIOC. There are
paratypes
of both sexes in alcohol, vial
259 in
support 26, at FIOC.
Emerson and Price 1981
: 43 (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
: 77 (checklist).
Gyropus iheringi
:
Hopkins and Clay 1952
: 161
(checklist).
Distribution.
BRAZIL
(Espírito Santo).
Hosts.
Trinomys iheringi
+,
Trinomys gratiosus
(Moojen) (Echimyidae)
.
Remarks.
The host used in the original description was identified by J. Moojen as
Proechimys iheringi
in 1945, that is, three years before his monograph about the Brazilian spiny rats of the genus
Proechimys
s
.
l
. (
Moojen 1948
). In this monograph, J. Moojen included in
Proechimys
(
Trinomys
)
iheringi
five subspecies:
P
.
i
.
iheringi
Thomas,
P
.
i
.
denigratus
Moojen,
P
.
i
.
paratus
Moojen
,
P
.
i
.
gratiosus
, and
P
.
i
.
bonafidei
Moojen. Probably the material identified for Werneck was not classified to subspecies, after Moojen's classification, and species identification was used by
Werneck (1948: 64)
to describe
G
.
m
.
iheringi
:
Proechimys iheringi
(spp.). It is now known that the species which occurs in the
type
locality, Floresta da Caixa d’água in Santa Teresa (Espírito Santo state), is
Trinomys gratiosus
(
Iack-Ximenes 2005
)
, namely,
Proechimys iheringi gratiosus
after
Moojen (1948)
and
Lara and Patton (2000)
. Therefore, the correct name for the
type
host of
G
.
m
.
iheringi
is
Trinomys gratiosus
instead of
T
.
iheringi
.