Cuculiphilus (Falcophilus) punctatus ( Gervais, 1849 )

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 : 25

Cuculiphilus (Falcophilus) punctatus ( Gervais, 1849) Incertae sedis

Liotheum punctatum Gervais, 1849: 104 .

Liotheum quadripustulatum Den. ; Gay 1854: pl. Anoplureos figs 11.

Laemobothrion punctatum Gervais , in Gay; Harrison 1916: 65.

Cuculiphilus punctatus ( Gervais, 1849) ; Hopkins 1949a: 46.

Cuculiphilus punctatus ( Gervais, 1849) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 99.

Cuculiphilus (Falcophilus) punctatus ( Gervais, 1849) ; Scharf & Price 1965: 553. Unidentifiable.

Cuculiphilus (Falcophilus) punctatus ( Gervais, 1849) ; Moreno & González-Acuña 2015: 95.

Cuculiphilus (Falcophilus) punctatus ( Gervais, 1849) ; González-Acuña & Moreno 2018: 262.

Status, sex and repository of types unknown, presumed lost.

Type hosts: “Halcones” and “perhaps Condor”.

Chilean hosts: “Halcones” and “perhaps Condor”; Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Other hosts: None.

Chilean localities: Not given.

Geographic distribution: Chile.

Chilean references: Gervais (1849); Gay (1854); Hopkins (1949a); Scharf & Price (1965); Moreno & González- Acuña (2015); González-Acuña & Moreno (2018).

Other significant reference: Hopkins & Clay (1952); Price et al. (2003: 105).

Remarks: Hopkins (1949a: 47) wrote: “Unfortunately, the absence of a proper host-record renders a closer identification of Cuculiphilus punctatus (Gervais) impossible unless the type should survive.” Considering that Scharf & Price (1965) could not obtain such type, they regarded this taxon as unidentifiable, but they recognised it as belonging to the subgenus Falcophilus . The record of Vultur gryphus as a host of Cuculiphilus (Falcophilus) punctatus in both Moreno & González-Acuña (2015) and González-Acuña & Moreno (2018) is only a transcription from Gervais (1849), because no further samples of this louse species have been collected from the Andean condor.