Capraiella masumae 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 : 429

Capraiella masumae Ansari, 1955

Capraiella masumae Ansari, 1955e: 47 .

Capraiella masumae Ansari, 1956a: 398 . Junior primary homonym.

Capraiella masumae Ansari, 1958c: 94 , fig. 195. Junior primary homonym.

Current status: Capraeilla masumae Ansari, 1955e . S pecies inquirenda.

Type host: Coracias benghalensis benghalensis (Linnaeus) .

Type locality: None given.

Type material: The single holotype female was not found in any collection we have surveyed, therefore, it is presumed lost.

Remarks: The louse illustrated by Ansari (1958c: fig. 195) does not belong to Capraiella , which is close to Degeeriella (see e.g. Catanach & Johnson 2015), a group that has an unbroken marginal carina and a rounded or pointed frons. Ansari’s illustration of the holotype appears to have trabecula and is likely a member of the Philopterus -complex. The figure caption reads “male” but that is an error for female, because the type series only included one female, the holotype, a fact confirmed by the terminalia of the figure medianly divided into two lobes. As the holotype is lost, and no meaningful information can be obtained from the text description and illustration, we consider this to be a species inquirenda, until further specimens are found. No members of the Philopterus -complex are known from any host in the Coraciidae ( Price et al. 2003: 311) .