Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from jacamars and puffbirds (Piciformes: Galbulidae, Bucconidae), with descriptions of five new species
Author
Price, Roger D.
Author
Weckstein, Jason D.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1367
37
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.174824
094fd388-43dc-452b-b2a4-a922f344bcb9
1175-5326
174824
Picicola oneilli
Price and Weckstein
,
new species
(
Figs. 22–24
)
Type
host
.
Notharchus macrorhynchos
(J.F. Gmelin)
, the White-necked Puffbird.
Description.
Head shaped much as in
Fig. 9
, with marginal carina having irregular inner border. Tergites II–IV each with 2 tergocentral setae; V, 3; VI–VIII, 4. Male tergite IX (
Fig. 22
) with very long heavy seta at each lateroposterior corner in addition to usual very long more median seta; both tergites VIII and IX medially narrowed. Male subgenital plate as in
Fig. 23
; genitalia as in
Fig. 24
, with an extremely short penis. Male dimensions: TW, 0.37; HL, 0.42; CI, 1.14; PW, 0.22; MW, 0.33; AWV, 0.44; GL, 0.25; PL, 0.015; TL, 1.43.
Type
material.
Ex
N. macrorhynchos
,
holotype
male (
DNA
voucher 1.13.2003.19),
PERU
: Dpto. Loreto,
86 km
SE Juanjui on upper Rio Pauya,
7° 35’ 10” S
,
75° 56’ 1” W
, (
LSUMZ
,
JPO-
8121,
8 August 2000
).
Remarks.
Although this new species is based only on a single male louse, the unique small penis structure and the details of the posterior tergal sclerites make us confident of its distinctness. The chaetotaxy of tergite IX is similar to that of
P. faucetti
(
Fig. 19
), but the differences in penis size and the shape of the inner border of the marginal head carina enable easy separation.
Etymology.
This species is named for John P. O’Neill in recognition of his generous assistance to students of Neotropical Ornithology and his collecting specimens vital to this and other studies of lice.