Reticulipeurus reevesi ( Clay, 1938 )

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 : 218-221

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Reticulipeurus reevesi ( Clay, 1938)

( Figs 9–10 View FIGURES 9–10 , 26 View FIGURES 25–28 , 48–50 View FIGURES 45–56 , 72 View FIGURES 71–72 , 81 View FIGURES 79–81 )

Oxylipeurus mesopelios reevesi Clay, 1938: 176 , pl. XI: fig. 5.

Oxylipeurus reevesi Clay, 1938 ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 260.

Reticulipeurus mesopelios reevesi (Clay) ; Złotorzycka 1966: 112.

Oxylipeurus reevesi Clay, 1938 ; Price et al. 2003: 204.

Type host. Syrmaticus reevesi (J.E. Gray, 1829) —Reeves’s pheasant.

Type locality. China, in the original publication, but some paratype slides also include “ Shensi ” [= Shaanxi Province, China] .

Description.

Both sexes. Head slender, frons narrowly rounded ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–10 ) but broader in female ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 9–10 ). Marginal carina slender. Dorsal preantennal suture extending far lateral to ads. Head chaetotaxy as in Figs 9–10 View FIGURES 9–10 . Lateral margins of post-antennal head slightly convex. Thoracic and abdominal plates and chaetotaxy as in Figs 9–10 View FIGURES 9–10 . Reticulation limited to lateral margins of tergopleurites III–IX+X.

Male. Antennae as in Fig. 26 View FIGURES 25–28 ; tooth-like projection of scape small; no significant rugose area on flagellomere I. Accessory sternal plates absent. Stylus short, with slightly concave lateral margins ( Fig. 81 View FIGURES 79–81 ). Basal apodeme slender ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 45–56 ). Mesosome small, distal margin concave, but mesosomal lobes rounded; rugose area restricted to distal margin, median section not rugose; antero-lateral hooks slender. Gonopore short and broad ( Fig. 50 View FIGURES 45–56 ). Ventral sclerite with slightly convex anterior margin; two pores sublaterally on each side on posterior margin, but no submedian pores visible. Parameres stout, with small parameral heads ( Fig. 49 View FIGURES 45–56 ); pst1 situated far proximal to pst2. Measurements as in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Female. Third leg pair absent or distorted in all examined females, and not illustrated. Tergopleurites IX+X and XI not fused ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 9–10 ). Subgenital plate seemingly widely separated medianly, but diffuse and illustrated approximately ( Fig. 72 View FIGURES 71–72 ). Vulval margin deeply and narrowly concave, with 13–15 setae marginally on each side (9 on one side in one specimen, but there is significant gap in setal row, suggesting some setae are artificially absent). Posterior lobes of abdomen short ( Fig. 72 View FIGURES 71–72 ). Subvulval plates distorted, but of roughly equal width throughout; proximal ends reached anterior to vulval margin. Measurements as in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Type material examined. Paratypes: 4♂, 12♀, Shensi [= Shaanxi Province], China, Apr. 1901, R . Meinertz- hagen, 4435, NHMUK010682563–6 About NHMUK ( NHML) .