Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari O. Fabricius 1780

• Main Authors: Al-Ahmed, Azzam, Shobrak, Mohammed, Nasser, D.
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• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Phthiraptera; Philopteridae; Saemundssonia; Saemundssonia lari; Glaucous Gull; Larus hyperboreus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5692119; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E1B92AFF9BFFE4FF3C8B16FB55C689

Saemundssonia ( Saemundssonia ) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780) (Figs 3 e,f, 4d) Pediculus lari O. Fabricius, 1780: 219. Saemundssonia ( Saemundssonia ) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780); Price et al . 2003: 234. Type host. Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767 —Glaucous gull. Material examined (n = 53). Ex Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763: 2 ♂, 8♀, 3N, Umm Al-Malik Island, Red Sea (25º13'48''N, 37º8'37''E), 12 Nov. 2011. Ex Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus (Temminck, 1825): 5♂, 10♀, 5N, Jazan Fish Market (16o54'12''N, 42o32'40''E), 24 Nov. 2012. Ex Larus armenicus Buturlin, 1934: 2 ♂, 7♀, Jazan Fish Market (16o 54' 9''N, 42o 32' 40''E), 23 Nov. 2012. Ex Ichthyaetus hemprichii (Bruch, 1853): 2♂, 4♀, Jeddah (21o24'56''N, 39o11'13''E), 25 Apr. 2013. Ex Larus michahellis Naumann, 1840: 3 ♂, 1♀, 1N, Jazan Coast (16o56''22''N, 42o32'35''E), 12 Dec. 2013. Species of Saemundssonia live primarily on the head and neck of the host. They are highly pigmented and are characterized by male genitalia, female subgenital plate and clypeal signature. Saemundssonia ( S. ) lari parasitises a great number of gull species (Price et al. 2003: 234), and is distinguished from other Saemundssonia species by the male genitalia (Fig. 4 d), as other characters may be confusing (Palma 2000; 2012). These are the first records of S. ( S. ) lari from the Armenian ( Larus armenicus ) and the yellow-legged gulls ( Larus michahellis ). Published as part of Al-Ahmed, Azzam, Shobrak, Mohammed & Nasser, D., 2014, Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Red Sea gulls with new host-parasite records, pp. 567-576 in Zootaxa 3790 (4) on page 573, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3790.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/230438