Goniodes sp.

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Grossi, Alexandra A., Ren, Mengjiao & Zou, Fasheng, 2023, The Goniodidae (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) of peafowl (Aves: Galliformes: Pavo), with description of a new genus, Journal of Natural History 57 (17 - 20), pp. 996-1048 : 1015

Goniodes sp.

Remarks

Nasser et al. (2015) collected a species of Goniodes from peafowl in Saudi Arabia, which they identified as Goniodes dissimilis Denny, 1842 . Their record was based on a single male specimen obtained from a bird market in Riyadh in 2013, and is figured with photos. Nasser et al. (2015) suggested that the occurrence of G. dissimilis on their peafowls may be ̍due to fighting with or contamination from domestic fowl̾, the usual host of G. dissimilis . It is clear from these photos that the specimen does not represent G. dissimilis , but rather some unidentified species that belongs to species group K [sensu Clay (1940)] or the proposed genus Solenodes Kéler, 1940 . For instance, the temples in the Saudi Arabian specimen are expanded lateral to the eye, which is not the case in G. dissimilis . Moreover, the genitalia of G. dissimilis are slender, but have a distinct mesosome (see eg Clay, 1940, fig. 41a), whereas the genitalia of the Saudi Arabian specimen are solenoid. The head shape of the Saudi Arabian specimen does not exactly match any of the species in this group illustrated by von Kéler (1940) or Clay (1940), and its identity is thus unknown.