Ciconiphilus decimfasciatus (Boisduval & Lacordaire, 1835)

Liotheum decimfasciatus Boisduval & Lacordaire, 1835: 123 .

Campeche: Ardea alba, 5 km S Champotón (Klaas 1968).

Chiapas: Ardea alba egretta, Apr. 1943 (Zavaleta 1944); Habia rubica, Apr. 1942 (Zavaleta 1944) . Distrito Federal: Bombycilla cedrorum, Pueblo de Santa Rosa, Suroeste de la Ciudad de Mexico, sobre los kilómetros 27–31 de la carretera al Desierto de los Leones (Zavaleta 1943a).

Notes: Specimens of C. decimfasciatus were identified by Zavaleta (1943a; 1944) as “ Colpocephalum laticeps K.”, and by Klaas (1968) as “ Ciconiphilus obscurus (Giebel, 1874) ”. Records from Bombycilla cedrorum and Habia rubica are most likely the result of contaminations because C. decimfasciatus is a regular and natural parasite of herons, family Ardeidae (see Price et al. 2003).