Pectinopygus nannopteri ( Ewing, 1924 )

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 : 43-44

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scientific name	Pectinopygus nannopteri ( Ewing, 1924 )
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Pectinopygus nannopteri ( Ewing, 1924) View in CoL

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Esthiopterum nannopteri Ewing, 1924: 82 View in CoL , fig. 12.

Pectinopygus (Philichthyophaga) nannopteri ( Ewing, 1924) View in CoL ; Thompson 1939: 213.

Pectinopygus (Philichthyophaga) nannopteri ( Ewing, 1924) View in CoL ; Thompson 1940: 429, figs 1–8.

Pectinopygus nannopteri ( Ewing, 1924) View in CoL ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 270.

Pectinopygus nannopteri ( Ewing, 1924) View in CoL ; Clay in Linsley & Usinger 1966: 131.

Pectinopygus sp. ; Parker, Whiteman & Miller 2006: 629.

Holotype ♀ in USNM.

Type host: Phalacrocorax harrisi Rothschild, 1898 .

Galápagos host: Phalacrocorax harrisi Rothschild, 1898 .

Galápagos localities: Isla Fernandina; Isla Isabela.

Galápagos references: Ewing (1924); Thompson (1939, 1940); Linsley & Usinger (1966); Parker, Whiteman & Miller (2006).

Other significant references: Timmermann (1964: 279); Price et al. (2003: 208).

Material examined: 17 males, 20 females and 16 nymphs (7 samples, MONZ) .

Remarks: This louse species and its host are endemic to the Galápagos Islands. The host species has sometimes been placed in the monotypic genus Nannopterum Sharpe, 1899 (e.g. Harris 1989: 74; Castro & Phillips 1996: 80).