Episbates pederiformis

• Main Authors: Palma, Ricardo L., Peck, Stewart B.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Philopteridae; Episbates; Episbates pederiformis; Diomedea exulans
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5261562; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF87F2FFC1FFDE2DDE55AC737C4BB3

Episbates pederiformis (Dufour, 1835) New record Philopterus pederiformis Dufour, 1835: 676, pl. 21, fig. 4. Esthiopterum pederiforme (Dufour, 1835); Harrison 1916: 139. Episbates pederiformis (Dufour, 1835); Thompson 1935b: 486, fig. 1. Neotype ♂ in NHML (Thompson 1948c: 667). Type host: Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758. Galápagos host: Phoebastria irrorata (Salvin, 1883). Galápagos locality: Isla Española. Galápagos references: This paper. Other significant references: Harrison (1937: 27); Clay (1940a: 298); Thompson (1948c: 661, text figs 1–8, pl. 19); Hopkins & Clay (1952: 131); Timmermann (1961c: 44, figs 12–13); Timmermann (1965: 103, fig. 41, pl. 10, fig. 4); Palma (1996: 176); Price et al. (2003: 178). Material examined: 32 males, 34 females and 51 nymphs (5 samples, MONZ). Remarks: Timmermann (1961c: 44) listed two specimens of Episbates pederiformis from Phoebastria irrorata (as Diomedea irrorata ) but did not specify any locality for them. Episbates is a new genus record for the Galápagos Islands and E. pederiformis is a new louse record for the islands. Price et al . (2003: 178) listed a number of albatross species as hosts of this louse. Genus Fulicoffula Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1938 Fulicoffula Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1938. Entomologist 71 : 279. Type species: “ Esthiopterum luridum (Denny) ” = Fulicoffula lurida (Nitzsch, 1818) (by original designation). Published as part of Palma, Ricardo L. & Peck, Stewart B., 2013, An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands , pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 3627 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3627.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5261238