Brueelia (Painjunirmus) brevipennis ( Ansari, 1956a )

Gustafsson, Daniel R. & Bush, Sarah E., 2024, Resurrection of Painjunirmus Ansari, 1947 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) as a subgenus of Brueelia Kéler, 1936, with description of one new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 968, pp. 174-199 : 181-184

Brueelia (Painjunirmus) brevipennis ( Ansari, 1956a)

Figs 9–16

Brueelia brevipennis Ansari, 1956a: 159 , figs 60–62.

Brueelia brevipennis – Price et al. 2003: 153. — Gustafsson & Bush 2017: 37–38. — Mey 2017: 157.

Type material

Holotype PALESTINE • ♂; Jericho ; 24 Nov. 1922; P.A. Buxton leg.; ex Argya squamiceps squamiceps ( Cretzschmar, 1826) [as Argya squamiceps (Cretzschmar, 1827) ]; NHMUK010670537 ; NHMUK .

Paratypes PALESTINE • 2 ♂♂; same data as for holotype; NHMUK010708240–1 ; NHMUK .

Other material examined

ISRAEL • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Masada [as Metzada ]; 2 May 1958; ex Argya squamiceps squamiceps [as Argya squamiceps ]; 326, Brit. Mus. 1958-520; NHMUK010708242 ; NHMUK .

Type host

Argya squamiceps squamiceps ( Cretzschmar, 1826) – Arabian babbler.

Type locality

Jericho, Palestine.

Description

Both sexes

Head convex dome-shaped ( Fig. 11 ), lateral margins of preantennal area convex, frons shallowly concave. Marginal carina shallowly displaced and much widened at osculum; lateral sections slender, with slightly irregular median margin. Ventral anterior plate not visible. Head chaetotaxy as in Fig. 11 . Pigmentation limited to near marginal carina and antennal socket. Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Figs 9–10 ; proepimera and metepisterna with dark brown pigmentation; lateral margins of tergopleurites, anterior and posterior sections of sternal plates, and anterior ends of subgenital plates of both sexes with medium brown pigmentation.

Male Scape as in Fig. 11 . Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 9 ; aps present on tergopleurite III; tsp present on tergopleurites V–VIII; 2 ps on each side of segments III and VII, 3 ps on each side of segments IV–VI. Sternal plates without lateral extensions. Subgenital plate with pigmentation along anterior margin, in some specimens also with lighter pigmentation submarginally farther posterior. Basal apodeme slender, slightly constricted at mid-length ( Fig. 13 ). Proximal mesosome short and broad, somewhat rounded ( Fig. 14 ). Mesosomal lobes convergent distally, antero-lateral horns short, slender, much curved. Rugose area of distal mesosome extensive; pmes as in Fig. 14 . Gonopore broad, distal margin deeply concave; ames as in Fig. 14 ; penile arms do not reach distal margin of mesosomal lobes. Parameres much elongated, pst1–2 as in Fig. 15.

MEASUREMENTS (n = 3). TL = 1.66–1.72; HL = 0.39–0.41; HW = 0.35–0.37; PRW = 0.22–0.24; PTW = 0.36–0.37; AW = 0.49–0.57.

Female

Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 10 ; segments III–VII with 2 ps on each side. Sternal plates without lateral extensions. Subgenital plate broad, with broad connection to cross-piece ( Fig. 16 ); dark pigmentation limited to antero-lateral corners. Vulval margin gently rounded ( Fig. 16 ), with 3–4 short, slender vms and 6–7 short, thorn-like vss on each side; 4 short, slender vos on each side of subgenital plate; distal 1 vos median to vss.

MEASUREMENTS (n = 1). TL = 1.89; HL = 0.43; HW = 0.38; PRW = 0.22; PTW = 0.35; AW = 0.56.

Remarks

Single examined female has a slightly tilted head, and the true head length and shape may be slightly different from that illustrated.

Figures

Figs 9–10. Brueelia (Painjunirmus) brevipennis Ansari, 1956. 9. Paratype, ♂ (NHMUK010708241), habitus, dorsal and ventral views. 10. ♀ (NHMUK010708242), habitus, dorsal and ventral views.

Figs 11–16. Brueelia (Painjunirmus) brevipennis Ansari, 1956. 11, 13–15. Paratype, ♂ (NHMUK010708241). 12, 16. ♀ (NHMUK010708242). 11. Head, dorsal and ventral views.12. Antenna, ventral side. 13. Genitalia, dorsal view. 14. ♂, mesosome, ventral view. 15. Paramere, dorsal view. 16. Subgenital plate and vulval margin, ventral view.