Osculonirmus limpidus Mey 1982

• Main Author: Bush, Sarah E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Phthiraptera; Philopteridae; Osculonirmus; Osculonirmus limpidus; Bonaparte; Eremophila alpestris
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5296899; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5296899

Osculonirmus limpidus Mey, 1982 (Figs 122–129) Osculonirmus limpidus Mey, 1982a: 60. Brueelia limpidus (Mey, 1982); Price et al. 2003: 156. Type host. Eremophila alpestris brandti (Dresser, 1874) —horned lark. Type locality. 15 km W of Chovd-chot, Aimak Chovd, Mongolia. Other hosts. Eremophila alpestris adusta (Dwight, 1890) —horned lark new host record. Eremophila alpestris albigula (Bonaparte, 1850) —horned lark new host record. Eremophila alpestris utahensis (Behle, 1938) —horned lark new host record. Description. Both sexes . Head shape, structure, and chaetotaxy as in genus description and Fig. 124. Displacement of marginal carina at osculum generally deeper in females than in males. Thoracic and abdominal segments as in genus description and Figs 122–123. Male. Scape swollen (Fig. 124). Abdominal chaetotaxy as in Table 2 and Fig. 122. Male genitalia distinct (Fig. 126). Basal apodeme long, slender. Proximal mesosome elongated, slender. Gonopore (Fig. 127) narrowly open distally, anterior end pointed, distal ends widened and slightly elongated. Mesosomal lobes small, rounded. Parameral heads (Fig. 128) swollen, deeply bifid. Parameral blades much elongated, convergent distal to mesosome and distal parts close together; pst1 sensilla, near distal tip; pst2 microseta, lateral near distal tip. Measurements ex Eremophila alpestris adusta (n = 1): TL = 1.47; HL = 0.37; HW = 0.31; PRW = 0.18; PTW = 0.33; AW = 0.44. Ex E. a. utahensis (n = 3 except n = 2 for TL and AW): TL = 1.47–1.48; HL = 0.36–0.37; HW = 0.30–0.32; PRW = 0.14–0.17; PTW = 0.27–0.29; AW = 0.35–0.41. Female. Antennae as in Fig. 125. Abdominal chaetotaxy as in Table 2 and Fig. 123. Subgenital plate oval to rounded triangular, not approaching vulval margin (Fig. 129). Vulval margin narrowly convex (Fig. 129), with 3 short, slender vm on each side, and 2 short, thorn-like vss on each side; 2 short, slender vos on each side. Measurements ex Eremophila alpestris adusta (n = 9): TL = 1.86–2.09; HL = 0.41–0.43; HW = 0.35–0.37; PRW = 0.19; PTW = 0.31–0.35; ...