Austromenopon aegialitidis, sensu lato

• Main Authors: Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A., Palma, Ricardo L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Menoponidae; Austromenopon; Austromenopon aegialitidis; Acuña; Falla; Molina; Ricardo; Antarc*; Antarctica; Vanellus vanellus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5766591; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766591

Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906) sensu lato Menopon aegialitidis Durrant, 1906: 529, fig. 1c. Menopon aegialitidis Durrant, 1906; Harrison 1916: 32. Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 46. Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906) sensu lato; Clay 1959: 165, fig. 7. Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); Price et al. 2003: 90. Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); González-Acuña et al. 2008b: 38, fig. 1. Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant, 1906); Palma 2017: 41. Holotype probably in OSUM (see Palma 1996: 114). Type host: Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758. Chilean host: Vanellus chilensis chilensis (Molina, 1782). Other hosts: Vanellus miles novaehollandiae Stephens, 1819; Charadrius bicinctus exilis Falla, 1978, Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758); Vanellus coronatus (Boddaert, 1783); at least nine species of Charadrius (see Price et al. 2003: 90). Chilean locality: Chillán: Region XVI. Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica. Chilean reference: González-Acuña et al. (2008b). Other significant references: Clay (1959); Palma (1996: 114); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2010: 407); Palma (2017). Remarks: Austromenopon aegialitidis is a morphologically variable species from a wide range of hosts and in need of detailed systematic study. 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 13, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642