Actornithophilus gracilis

• Main Authors: Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A., Palma, Ricardo L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Menoponidae; Actornithophilus; Actornithophilus gracilis; Vanellus vanellus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766581; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F1388797FFDD8411FF485579FB988C7D

Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880) Colpocephalum gracile Piaget, 1880: 555, pl. 46: fig. 5. Colpocephalum gracile Piaget, 1880; Harrison 1916: 49. Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880); Hopkins & Clay, 1952: 21. Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880); Clay 1962: 202, 242. Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880); Price et al . 2003: 83. Actornithophilus gracilis (Piaget, 1880); González-Acuña et al . 2008b: 38, fig. 2. Syntypes ♂ N in NHML (see Clay 1951a: 181). Type host: “ Platalea alba Scopoli, 1786 ”, in error (see Clay 1962: 242). Chilean host: Vanellus chilensis chilensis (Molina, 1782). Other host: Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758). Chilean localities: Dalcahue (Chiloé): Region X; Chillán: Region XVI. Geographic distribution: Eurasia; Central and South America; northern Africa. Chilean references: González-Acuña et al . (2008b); this catalogue. Other significant references: Clay (1962); Price et al. (2003). Remarks: Dalcahue (Chiloé) is a new locality record for Actornithophilus gracilis in Chile, based on specimens from Vanellus chilensis chilensis held in NHML (Shchedrina et al . 2017). Published as part of Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 5077 (1) on page 10, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642