Penenirmus auritus ( Scopoli, 1763 )

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 92

Penenirmus auritus ( Scopoli, 1763)

Pediculus auritus Scopoli, 1763: 383 .

Philopterus auritus Scopoli, 1763 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 11, 88.

Penenirmus auritus ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Clay & Hopkins 1951: 14, figs 19–20.

Penenirmus auritus auritus ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Emerson & Johnson 1961: 35.

Penenirmus auritus ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Dalgleish 1972: 88, figs 1–2, 11, 15–16.

Penenirmus auritus ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Price et al. 2003: 209.

Penenirmus auritus ( Scopoli, 1763) ; González-Acuña et al. 2014: 110, figs 1–12.

Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay & Hopkins 1951: 15).

Type host: Picoides major pinetorum (Brehm, 1831) .

Chilean host: Colaptes pitius (Molina, 1782) .

Other hosts: Fifty-one species distributed in the genera Celeus , Colaptes , Dendropicos , Dryocopus , Eubucco , Melanerpes , Picoides , Piculus , Picus , Sphyrapicus and Veniliornis (see Price et al. 2003: 209).

Chilean locality: Coyhaique: Region XI.

Geographic distribution: Eurasia; North, Central and South America.

Chilean reference: González-Acuña et al. (2014).

Other significant references: Clay & Hopkins (1951); Emerson & Johnson (1961); Dalgleish (1972); Price et al. (2003); Galloway & Lamb (2016).

Remarks: González-Acuña et al. (2014: 114) noted that Price et al. (2003: 210, 365) listed Penenirmus jungens ( Kellogg, 1896b) under Colaptes pitius , opening the possibility that the Chilean population of this host may harbour both species of Penenirmus . Galloway & Lamb (2016) provided ecological data on Penenirmus auritus collected from four species of woodpeckers in Manitoba, Canada.