Pseudomenopon pilosum

• 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; Pseudomenopon; Pseudomenopon pilosum; Bonaparte; Ferris; Ricardo; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5766682; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766682

Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763) Pediculus pilosus Scopoli, 1763: 384. Menopon tridens Burmeister, 1838: 440. Pseudomenopon tridens (Nitzsch) [sic]; Ferris 1924: 63, fig. 4. Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 302. Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Price 1974: 73, figs 1–6, 11, 18, 21–22. Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Price et al. 2003: 135. Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Cicchino 2011: 102, figs 1–3, 8–13, 32, 42, 47. Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763); Palma 2017: 77. Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay & Hopkins 1951: 19). Type host: Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758. Chilean hosts: Fulica armillata Vieillot, 1817; Fulica cornuta Bonaparte, 1853. Other hosts: Hydrophasianus chirurgus (Scopoli, 1786); Podica senegalensis (Vieillot, 1817); seven species of Fulica, and five species of Gallinula (see Price et al. 2003: 136). Chilean localities: Antofagasta: Region II. Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica. Chilean references: Price (1974: 75); Cicchino (2011: 103). Other significant references: Ferris (1924); Clay & Hopkins (1951: 19); Tendeiro (1965a: 19, photos 2–3, 22, 32, 43, 52); Price (1974); Lakshminarayana (1977: 56); Palma (1996: 142); Martín-Mateo (2002: 42, figs 9–10); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2017). Remarks: Pseudomenopon pilosum is a frequently collected species from a large number of hosts (Palma 2017). Bartlett & Anderson (1987) demonstrated the transmission of the filarioid nematode Pelecitus fulicaeatrae (Diesing, 1861) by this louse. Genus Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954 Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954: Rev. Bras. Entomol. 2, 150. Type species: Psittacobrosus burmeisteri kelloggi Carriker, 1954 = Psittacobrosus kelloggi Carriker, 1954 (by original designation). 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 41, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642