Bruelia chilchil Ansari, 1955

Naz, Saima, Najer, Tomas & Gustafsson, Daniel R., 2020, An annotated list of the species of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) described by Mohammad A. - R. Ansari, Zootaxa 4809 (3), pp. 401-448 : 418

Bruelia chilchil Ansari, 1955

Bruelia chilchil Ansari, 1955e: 53 .

Bruëlia chilchil Ansari, 1956a: 394 . Junior primary homonym.

Bruelia chilchil Ansari, 1955e ; Ansari 1956g: 160, figs 63–66.

Bruelia chilchil Ansari, 1958b: 48 , figs 9–15. Junior primary homonym.

Current status: Brueelia chilchil Ansari, 1955e .

Type host: Turdoides caudata caudata (Dumont) .

Type locality: Bharatpur , Rajputana, India .

Type material: Ansari (1955e: 54) designated a holotype male and an allotype female, without any paratype and without giving any locality for the host. Then, Ansari (1956g: 160) listed: “ PARATYPES (fifteen males and twenty females) from the type-host in Ansari collection, Lyallpur, 1932. V.11 ”. Considering that this was not the original description, the paratypes have no type status. However, in the NHML, there is one slide [ NHML 010670544] containing one male, two females and a nymph with labels reading “ Brueelia ” and a “ T ” in red ink, the host name and the same collecting data as for the “ paratypes ” mentioned above. On the reverse of this slide, another label reads “ Bruelia chilchil Ansari, 1955 ” and “(? Paratypes ”). Gustafsson & Bush (2017: 406) ignored the question mark and the fact that these four lice are not paratypes, erroneously listing them as such. Besides these four specimens, the location of the remaining 32 males and females is unknown. Furthermore, Ansari (1956g: 160) also mentions specimens from Rajputana in the Meinertzhagen collection, without giving numbers of lice or their sex, but without designating them as type material. These specimens have not been located either. There is a slight possibility that the male and one of the females on slide NHML 010670544 may be the holotype and the allotype, but there is no way to confirm this assumption.