Austromenopon transversum

• Main Authors: Palma, Ricardo L., Peck, Stewart B.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Menoponidae; Austromenopon; Austromenopon transversum; rissa tridactyla
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5261526; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF87F2FFEDFFF52DDE51DF75704D67

Austromenopon transversum (Denny, 1842) New record Menopon Transversum [sic] Denny, 1842: 201. Menopon transversus Denny, 1842: 226, pl. 21, fig. 7. Austromenopon transversum (Denny, 1842); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 48. Lectotype ♀ in NHML (Clay (1959: 166). Type host: Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758). Galápagos hosts: Creagrus furcatus (Néboux, 1842); Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831. Galápagos localities: Isla Genovesa; Isla Seymour; Isla Santa Cruz; Isla Champion (near Isla Floreana). Galápagos references: This paper. Other significant references: Timmermann (1954b: 204, fig. 15–16); Timmermann (1957: 97, figs 73–74); Clay (1959: 161, 164, 166–167, figs 15, 19, 21); Clay & Moreby (1967: 158, 169, figs 63, 73); Choe & Kim (1987: 3000, 3002); Palma (1996: 119); Price et al . (2003: 93). Material examined: 11 males, 17 females and 31 nymphs (6 samples, MONZ). Remarks: This is the first record of Austromenopon transversum from the Galápagos Islands, and also a new hostlouse association for Creagrus furcatus . This louse species is the only Austromenopon known from all species of gulls (Price et al . 2003: 93, 290). Genus Colpocephalum Nitzsch, 1818 Colpocephalum Nitzsch, 1818. Germar’s Mag. Ent. 3 : 298. Type species: Colpocephalum zebra Burmeister, 1838 (by subsequent designation). Ferrisia Uchida, 1926. Jour. Coll. Agric. Tokyo 9 : 43. Type species: Colpocephalum turbinatum Denny, 1842 (by original designation). Preoccupied by Ferrisia Fullaway, 1923. Neocolpocephalum Ewing, 1933. Jour. Parasit. 20 : 65. Nomen novum for Ferrisia Uchida, 1926. Corvocolpocephalum Conci, 1942. Boll. Soc. Ent. Italiana 74 : 30. Type species: Colpocephalum subaequale “Nitzsch in Burm. 1838” = Colpocephalum fregili Denny, 1842 (by original designation). Liothella Eichler, 1947. Arkiv Zool. 39A (2): 15. Type species: Colpocephalum leptopygos Nitzsch [ in Giebel], 1874 (by original designation). Pelecanigogus Eichler, 1949. Boll. Soc. Ent. Italiana 79 : 12. Type species: Colpocephalum eucarenum “Ntz i. Brm.” (by original ...