Strigiphilus cursor ( Burmeister, 1838 )

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 : 63

Strigiphilus cursor ( Burmeister, 1838) New record

Docophorus cursor Burmeister, 1838: 426 .

Docophorus cursor Nitzsch , Giebel’s, 1874 [sic]; Kellogg 1906: 317.

Philopterus cursor (Nitzsch, in Burmeister, 1838) [sic]; Harrison 1916: 92.

Strigiphilus cursor ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 339.

Syntypes probably lost ( Hopkins 1949: 32).

Type host: Asio flammeus flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763) .

Galápagos host: Asio flammeus galapagoensis (Gould, 1837) .

Galápagos locality: Isla Santiago.

Galápagos references: Kellogg (1906)?; Thompson (1939: 17); this paper.

Other significant references: Carriker (1966: 85); Clay (1966: 841, fig. 15); Price et al. (2003: 239).

Material examined: 4 males (1 sample, MONZ) .

Remarks: The record of Strigiphilus cursor in Kellogg (1906: 317; as D. cursor ) is actually from Clarion Island, which is not part of the Galápagos Islands. Thompson (1939: 17) incorrectly added “ Galapagos Is.”, probably because of the host identity. However, considering the high level of contaminations that occurred within the louse collections reported by Kellogg (1906) (see Palma 1994b), it is possible that the lice actually originated from a Galápagos owl. Even if Kellogg’s material did not originate from the Galápagos, the 1992 Galápagos Expedition confirmed the presence of this louse species on a Galápagos owl. Strigiphilus is a new genus record for the Galápagos Islands, and S. cursor should also be regarded as a new record for the archipelago. At present, Asio flammeus is the only host species of Strigiphilus cursor ( Price et al. 2003: 239) .

Genus Trabeculus Rudow, 1866

Trabeculus Rudow, 1866 . Type species: Oncophorus schillingi Rudow, 1866 = Trabeculus schillingi ( Rudow, 1866) (by monotypy).

Giebelia Kellogg, 1896a . Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6: 137. Type species: Giebelia mirabilis Kellogg, 1896 = Trabeculus mirabilis (Kellogg, 1896) (by monotypy).