Mallophaga

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1879
• Subjects: Diomedea exulans
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1879.0026; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1879.0026

The Mallophaga entrusted to me for examination were collected from Pelecanoides, Prion, Halobœna, Diomedea , and Aptenodytes , and comprise species of the genera Docophorus, Nirmus, Goniodes , and Lipeurus . Only one, and that the commonest, obtained from Procellaria nereis, Prion desolatus , and perhaps also from Diomedea exulans , was previously known, having been recorded from Halobœna cœrulea . The four additional species described as new are separated by very marked characters from all others hitherto known in their respective genera. Among them Goniodes brevipes from Aptenodytes longirostris is particularly interesting, because no Philoptera at all were known from this bird, and this genus has been observed on Natatores only once before, being especially parasitic upon Gallinaceæ. Pelecanoides also had previously furnished no Mallophaga, and the species of Nirmus procured from it is very distinct. The Docophorus dentatus from Diomedea exulans is remarkable on account of its relationship to a species observed on a Vultur , from which it is distinguished by very precise differentia.