Philopterus domesticus (Kellogg, 1896)

Palma, Ricardo L. & Peck, Stewart B., 2013, <strong> An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands </ strong>, Zootaxa 3627 (1), pp. 1-87 : 68

Philopterus domesticus (Kellogg, 1896)

Kellogg (1906: 317) reported Docophorus domesticus Kellogg, 1896b from Progne modesta as a new record from “Indefatigable Id.” (= Santa Cruz Island). That record was listed again by Thompson (1939: 17) but as “ Philopterus domesticus (Kellogg) ”. Carriker (1957: 96) compared the type specimens of Docophorus domesticus Kellogg, 1896 against “A series of slides labelled D. domesticus , later collected from Progne modesta, Indefatigable Id. ” and concluded that the latter were “not the same as the types of domesticus ”, but he gave no alternative species identification for the Galápagos specimens. Notwithstanding Carriker’s statement, Clay (in Linsley & Usinger 1966: 131) listed Philopterus domesticus (Kellogg, 1896) as a species from the Galápagos Islands. Although we have not been able to examine the original material recorded by Kellogg (1906: 317), we accept Carriker’s (1957: 96) statement that the specimens from Progne modesta are not Philopterus domesticus (Kellogg, 1896) and, therefore, we delete this species from the louse fauna of the Galápagos Islands.