Quadraceps paludicola ( Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902 )

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 : 52-53

Quadraceps paludicola ( Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902)

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Nirmus paludicola Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902: 469 , pl. 29, fig. 3.

Degeeriella paludicola ( Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902) ; Harrison 1916: 120.

Quadraceps paludicola ( Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 314.

Quadraceps ernstmayri Timmermann, 1952a: 216 , text-fig. 3, pl. 12.

Quadraceps ernstmayri Timmermann, 1952 ; Hopkins & Clay 1953: 443.

Quadraceps ernstmayri Timmermann, 1952 ; Timmermann 1957: 69, text-fig. 43, pl. 6, fig. d.

Quadraceps paludicola ( Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902) ; Clay in Linsley & Usinger 1966: 131.

Quadraceps paludicola ( Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902) ; Złotorzycka 1967: 727.

Koeniginirmus (Laminonirmus) ernstmayri (Timmermann, 1952) ; Złotorzycka 1967: 757.

Quadraceps paludicola ( Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902) ; Palma 1995: 218.

Holotype ♀ in EMEC ( Palma 1995: 218).

Type host: Butorides sundevalli (Reichenow, 1877) , in error (see Palma 1995: 219).

Galápagos host: Creagrus furcatus (Néboux, 1842) .

Galápagos localities: Isla Genovesa; Isla Isabela; Isla Seymour; Isla Champion (near Isla Floreana).

Galápagos references: Kellogg & Kuwana (1902); Kellogg (1908: 28); Thompson (1939: 121); Timmermann (1952; 1957); Linsley & Usinger (1966); Palma (1994b: 271); Palma (1995).

Other significant references: Timmermann (1971: 151); Price et al. (2003: 226).

Material examined: 51 males, 40 females and 30 nymphs (9 samples, EMEC, MONZ, NHML) .

Remarks: Quadraceps paludicola is so far endemic to the Galápagos Islands, but Creagrus furcatus is not, as this gull also breeds on Malpelo Island ( Dickinson 2003: 149), located about 500 km west of the Colombian mainland. From the Kellogg Collection we examined the holotype of Nirmus paludicola . Also, we examined five paratypes of Quadraceps ernstmayri held in the NHML.

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FIGURE 12. Quadraceps paludicola (Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902). A: male. B: female (Host: Creagrus furcatus).