Reticulipeurus robustus ( Rudow, 1869 )

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Lei, Lujia, Chu, Xingzhi & Zou, Fasheng, 2020, Review of Chinese species of the Oxylipeurus - complex (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae), with descriptions of two new genera and five new species, Zootaxa 4742 (2), pp. 201-255 : 218

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Reticulipeurus robustus ( Rudow, 1869 )
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Reticulipeurus robustus ( Rudow, 1869)

( Figs 7–8 View FIGURES 7–8 , 25 View FIGURES 25–28 , 45–47 View FIGURES 45–56 , 71 View FIGURES 71–72 , 80 View FIGURES 79–81 , 89 View FIGURE 89 , 93 View FIGURES 92–95 )

Lipeurus robustus Rudow, 1869: 32 .

Oxylipeurus mesopelios robustus ( Rudow, 1869) ; Clay 1938: 177.

Oxylipeurus robustus (Rudow), 1869 ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 260.

Reticulipeurus mesopelios robustus (Rud.) ; Złotorzycka 1966: 112.

Oxylipeurus robustus ( Rudow, 1869) ; Price et al. 2003: 204.

Type host. Lophura leucomelanos lineata (Vigors, 1831) —Kalij pheasant.

Type locality. None given. The natural range of the type host spans the Himalayas and Myanmar, but this host is common in captivity .

Other host. Lophura nycthemera (Linnaeus, 1758) —silver pheasant.

Description.

Both sexes. Head slender, frons broadly rounded ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 7–8 ). Marginal carina relatively wide. Dorsal preantennal suture extends far lateral to ads. Head chaetotaxy as in Figs 7 View FIGURES 7–8 and 93 View FIGURES 92–95 . Lateral margins of postantennal head parallel or slightly concave. Thoracic and abdominal plates and chaetotaxy as in Figs 7–8 View FIGURES 7–8 . Reticulation extensive across pteronotum, pterosternal plate, metepisternum, tergopleurites, and sternal and subgenital plates.

Male. Antennae as in Fig. 25 View FIGURES 25–28 ; only rudimentary tooth-like projection on scape (in some specimens slightly larger than illustrated); rugose area of flagellomere I extensive. Accessory sternal plates present on segment VIII ( Fig. 80 View FIGURES 79–81 ). Stylus short, of roughly equal width throughout ( Fig. 80 View FIGURES 79–81 ). Basal apodeme slender ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 45–56 ). Mesosome small, distal margin converging to median point, rugose area broadening slightly laterally; antero-lateral hooks small. Gonopore long, wide ( Fig. 47 View FIGURES 45–56 ). Ventral sclerite as in Fig. 47 View FIGURES 45–56 , lateral ends widening; one sublateral pore and two submedian microsetae on each side on posterior margin. Parameres slender, tapering, parameral heads slender, acute; pst1 much proximal to pst2. Measurements as in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Female. Antennae broken off in all examined specimens, and here illustrated approximately. Tergopleurites IX+X and XI fused ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 7–8 ). Subgenital plate seemingly widely separated medianly, but diffuse and here illustrated approximately. Vulval margin deeply concave, with 22–26 setae marginally on each side. Posterior lobes of abdomen elongated ( Fig. 71 View FIGURES 71–72 ). Subvulval plates tapering distally, proximal end reaching anterior to vulval margin. Measurements as in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Non-type material examined. Ex Lophura nycthemera : 4♂, 4♀, Fokien [= Fujian Province], China, Oct. 1904, R. Meinertzhagen, 3844, NHMUK010682579 About NHMUK ( NHML) .

Remarks. In common with Clay (1938), we were not able to examine any specimen from the type host of Reticulipeurus robustus . Clay & Hopkins’s (1955) summary of material available in the Rudow Collection held in the Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum (Hamburg, Germany) does not include any specimen of R. robustus . The conclusion is that Rudow’s type specimens were destroyed in 1943, during World War II ( Clay & Hopkins 1955: 50). New material from the type host is needed to confirm if the two host species listed above harbour the same louse species. Until such time, we follow Clay (1938) in regarding R. robustus as parasitic on both hosts.

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Phthiraptera

Family

Philopteridae

Genus

Reticulipeurus

Loc

Reticulipeurus robustus ( Rudow, 1869 )

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Lei, Lujia, Chu, Xingzhi & Zou, Fasheng 2020
2020
Loc

Oxylipeurus robustus ( Rudow, 1869 )

Price, R. D. & Hellenthal, R. A. & Palma, R. L. & Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. 2003: 204
2003
Loc

Reticulipeurus mesopelios robustus (Rud.)

Zlotorzycka, J. 1966: 112
1966
Loc

Oxylipeurus robustus (Rudow), 1869

Hopkins, G. H. E. & Clay, T. 1952: 260
1952
Loc

Oxylipeurus mesopelios robustus ( Rudow, 1869 )

Clay, T. 1938: 177
1938
Loc

Lipeurus robustus

Rudow, F. 1869: 32
1869
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