Brueelia brachythorax

• Main Author: Bush, Sarah E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Phthiraptera; Philopteridae; Brueelia; Brueelia brachythorax; Bohemian Waxwing; Bombycilla garrulus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5296867; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/832187E9FFA3FFEFFF746298FB8FFEC6

Brueelia brachythorax (Giebel, 1874) (Figs 42–48) Nirmus brachythorax Giebel, 1874: 134. Degeeriella brachythorax (Giebel, 1874); Harrison, 1916: 109. Brueelia rossittensis Kéler, 1936a: 257. Brueelia brachythorax (Giebel, 1874); Hopkins & Clay, 1952: 54. Type host. Bombycilla garrulus garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bohemian waxwing. Type locality. None given, likely Germany, but type series is lost. Type locality for Brueelia rossittensis is Rossitten [now: Rybachy], Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Other host. Bombycilla garrulus pallidiceps Reichenow, 1908 — Bohemian waxwing new host record. Description. Both sexes . Head shape, structure, and chaetotaxy as in Fig. 44. Marginal carina barely widened at osculum. Ventral anterior plate very small, not visible in old material. Short vsms2 situated in clypeo-labral suture, not on lateral margins of clypeo-labral suture. Preantennal nodi moderate. Coni short, blunt, barely or not reaching distal margin of scape. Pre- and postocular nodi prominent, connected dorsally. Gular plate drop-shaped. Thoracic and abdominal segments as in genus description and Figs 42–43; 5 mms on each side, alternating between short and long setae. Proepimera broad, median ends hooked around coxae II. Median ends of metepisterna broad, blunt. tps absent on all segments in both sexes. Male . Abdominal chaetotaxy as in Table 3 and Fig. 42. Subgenital plate pentagonal. Male genitalia typical for genus (Fig. 45). Proximal mesosome broadly rounded. Gonopore (Fig. 46) large, narrowly open distally. Parameres (Fig. 47) not much elongated distally; pst1 sensillus, submarginal; pst2 microseta, on distal tip. Measurements: ex Bombycilla garrulus garrulus (n = 6): TL = 1.48–1.59; HL = 0.36–0.37; HW = 0.29–0.32; PRW = 0.19–0.20; PTW = 0.27–0.29; AW = 0.40–0.45. Ex B . g . pallidiceps (n = 8): TL = 1.52–1.69; HL = 0.35–0.37; HW = 0.28–0.31; PRW = 0.18–0.20; PTW = 0.25–0.32; AW = 0.38–0.45. Female . Abdominal chaetotaxy as in Table 3 and Fig. 43. Subgenital plate pentagonal, flaring distally along vulval ...