Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari " Clay

• Main Authors: Palma, Ricardo L., Peck, Stewart B.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Philopteridae; Saemundssonia; Saemundssonia lari; Ricardo; Larus hyperboreus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5261600; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5261600

Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780) New record Pediculus lari O. Fabricius, 1780: 219. Philopterus lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Harrison 1916: 97 (as junior synonym of Philopterus gonothorax Giebel, 1871 [sic]). Saemundssonia lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 332. Saemundssonia lari lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Clay & Hopkins 1954: 249, figs 37–39. Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Price et al. 2003: 234. Neotype ♂ in NHML (Clay & Hopkins 1954: 249). Type host: Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767. Galápagos host: Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831. Galápagos locality: Isla Floreana. Galápagos references: This paper. Other significant references: Clay & Hopkins (1954: 248); Timmermann (1957: 42, figs 9, 12); Palma (1996: 222); Price et al. (2003: 234). Material examined: 1 female (MONZ). Remarks: This is a very common louse species parasitic on a wide range of gull hosts (Price et al. 2003: 234), including Larus pipixcan. Records of “ Docophorus lari ” in Kellogg & Kuwana (1902: 463) and Kellogg (1906: 317) refer to Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) creagrusa (see above). 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 page 60, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3627.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5261238