Insects found in birds’ nests from Argentina. Part I: a bibliographical review, with taxonomical corrections, comments and a hypothetical mechanism of transmission of cimicid bugs
Author
Turienzo, Paola
Author
Iorio, Osvaldo Di
text
Zootaxa
2007
1561
1
52
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178338
8b7bb0da-4dda-42b6-a563-839a5281eedd
1175-5326
178338
Serpophaga
sp. n.
[
sensu
Herzog & Barnett (2004)
]
=
Serpophaga griseiceps
:
Mezquida & Marone 2001
.
DIPTERA
:
Muscidae
Philornis
sp.
Mendoza: Ñacuñán Biological Reserve (
Mezquida & Marone 2001
);
Fig. 8
.
Note: Nomenclature and identification of the species in the genus
Serpophaga
is actually highly controversial.
Mezquida & Marone (2000)
textually says: “the taxonomic status of
S. munda
in relation with
S. subcrisfata
is controversial (Zimmer 1955). Straneck (1993), based on voice analyses, suggested that
S. subcristata
and
S. munda
(
sensu
Narosky and Yzurieta 1987)
should be considered subspecies of
S. subcristata
, and revalidated
S. griseiceps
(Gray-crowned Tyrannulet), a species described by Berlioz in 1959 for Cercado, Cochabamba (
Bolivia
). Ridgely and Tudor (1994) treated
S. griseiceps
as a synonym of
S. munda
following Zimmer (1955), and
S. subcristata
and
S. munda
as full species, because their sympatry seems to be established and, at least in
Bolivia
, their voices differ (J. V. Remsen Jr., pers. comm. to Ridgely and Tudor 1994). However, the voice ascribed by J. V. Remsen (Remsen and Traylor 1989) to
S. subcristata
would actually correspond to
S. griseiceps
(Straneck 1993)
.
Serpophaga
species are distributed in
Argentina
during the breeding season as follows:
S. subcristata subcristata
in the eastern half of the country, from Buenos Aires to Misiones province, while
S. subcristata munda
and
S. griseiceps
occupy the western half from La Pampa and Mendoza to Salta and Jujuy provinces (Straneck 1993). In the Biosphere Reserve of Nacuñán (Mendoza), Contreras (1979) and Marone (1992) cited
S. munda
, but we observed that
S. griseiceps
is the most abundant species in the reserve. Therefore, the species referred to by Contreras (1979) and Marone (1992) should be
S. griseiceps
. The identity of this species was confirmed by an analysis of its vocalizations (R. Straneck, pers.
com.). The occasional presence of
S. subcristata munda
also has been established in Nacuñán (J. Lopez de Casenave and V. Cueto, pers. com.)”.
From this it can be deduced that
Mezquida & Marone (2001)
are speaking about
S. griseiseps sensu
Straneck, 1993
, and not of
S. griseiceps
Berlioz, 1959
. Lately
Herzog & Barnett (2004)
concluded that
Serpophaga griseiceps
Berlioz, 1959
represents the juvenal plumage of
S. munda
, this last a separate species from
S. subcristata
, and that
S. griseiceps sensu
Straneck, 1993
corresponds to an undescribed species. This last criterion is followed here.
Sublegatus modestus
[
brevirostris
(D´Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)]
DIPTERA
:
Muscidae
Philornis torquans
(
Nielsen, 1913
)
Santa Fe: see Table 2;
Fig. 9
.
Tyrannus savana
[
savana
Vieillot, 1807
]
HEMIPTERA
Reduviidae
:
Triatominae
Species not stated
Corrientes (
Bar
et al
. 1999
;
Damborsky
et al
. 2001
, only as
Tyrannidae
).