Austromenopon popellus ( Piaget, 1890 )

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 : 15

Austromenopon popellus ( Piaget, 1890)

Menopon popellus Piaget, 1890: 251 , pl. 10, fig. 5.

Procellariphaga popellus ( Piaget, 1890) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 299.

Austromenopon popellus ( Piaget, 1890) ; Price & Clay 1972: 491, fig. 24.

Austromenopon popellus ( Piaget, 1890) ; Linsley 1977: 8.

Holotype ♂ in NHML ( Clay 1949: 908).

Type host: Podica senegalensis (Vieillot, 1817) , in error (see Hopkins & Clay 1952: 299).

Galápagos host: Pterodroma phaeopygia (Salvin, 1876) .

Galápagos locality: Isla Santa Cruz.

Galápagos reference: Price & Clay (1972: 493); Linsley (1977).

Other significant references: Timmermann (1963: 413, fig. 7); Timmermann (1965: 170, fig. 107); Palma (1996: 118); Price et al. (2003: 92).

Material examined: 5 males, 6 females and 5 nymphs (2 samples, MONZ) .

Remarks: Pterodroma phaeopygia is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. Although Dickinson (2003: 74) listed it as the subspecies Pterodroma phaeopygia phaeopygia , we regard it as a full species as well as Pterodroma sandwichensis (Ridgway, 1884) , following Browne et al. (1997: 814). Austromenopon popellus has been recorded on a large number of procellariid hosts ( Price et al. 2003: 92), including Pterodroma phaeopygia .