Quadraceps sellatus subsp. houri Hopkins 1949

• 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; Philopteridae; Quadraceps; Quadraceps sellatus; Quadraceps sellatus houri hopkins; 1949; Arctic; Pacific; Ricardo; Diego Ramírez Islands; Isla Gonzalo; Sterna paradisaea; Sterna vittata
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5766876; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766876

Quadraceps sellatus houri Hopkins, 1949 New record Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949b: 52, pl. 3: figs 9–10. Quadraceps sellatus houri Hopkins, 1949; Timmermann 1952a: 79. Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 312. Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949; Timmermann 1957: 71, pl. 7: figs a,b. Koeniginirmus (Laminonirmus) houri (Hopkins, 1949); Złotorzycka 1967: 758. Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949; Clay & Moreby 1967: 164, 169, fig. 146. Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949; Price et al. 2003: 224. Quadraceps sellatus houri Hopkins, 1949; Palma 2017: 183. Holotype ♀ in NHML. Type host: Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763. Chilean host: Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763. Other hosts: Sterna vittata vittata Gmelin, 1789; Sterna vittata bethunei Buller, 1896. Chilean locality: Isla Gonzalo (Diego Ramírez Islands): Region XII. Geographic distribution: Arctic and Subantarctic; Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Chilean reference: This catalogue. Other significant references: Timmermann (1952a; 1957); Clay & Moreby (1967); Złotorzycka (1967); Palma (1996: 212); Price et al. (2003); Hänel & Palma (2007: 113, 127, 131); Palma (2010: 408); Palma (2017). Remarks: This is the first record of Quadraceps sellatus houri from Chile, based on a sample from Sterna paradisaea held in MONZ. In agreement with Palma (2017: 183) and contrary to Price et al. (2003: 224), we regard this louse taxon as a subspecies of Quadraceps sellatus. 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 104, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766642