Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget 1880

• 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; Colpocephalum; Colpocephalum heterosoma; Galaz; Molina; Ricardo; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5766618; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766618

Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880 Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880: 572, pl. 48: figs 3–4. Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Kellogg 1906: 321. Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Clay 1951b: 1059, figs 1–7, 9–12. Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Price & Beer 1965: 128, figs 89–91. Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Galaz et al. 1999: 18, fig. 2. Colpocephalum heterosoma Piaget, 1880; Price et al. 2003: 99. Lectotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay 1951b: 1162). Type host: Phoenicopterus ruber roseus Pallas, 1811. Chilean host: Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina, 1782. Other hosts: Phoenicopterus ruber ruber Linnaeus, 1758; Phoeniconaias minor (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1798); Phoenicoparrus jamesi (Sclater, 1886). Chilean locality: Salar Surire: Region XV. Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica. Chilean references: Price & Beer (1965); Galaz et al. (1999). Other significant references: Clay (1951); Clay (1974: 484); Price et al. (2003); Palma & Price (2010: 145); Palma & Peck (2013: 17). Remarks:Among the three species of Colpocephalum parasitic on flamingoes, C. heterosoma is the most widespread, recorded from four host species belonging to three genera (Price et al. 2003: 99). 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 19, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642