Sinolipeurus tetraophasis ( Clay, 1938 ) Gustafsson & Lei & Chu & Zou, 2020

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Lei, Lujia, Chu, Xingzhi & Zou, Fasheng, 2020, Review of Chinese species of the Oxylipeurus - complex (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae), with descriptions of two new genera and five new species, Zootaxa 4742 (2), pp. 201-255 : 230-231

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.2.1

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scientific name

Sinolipeurus tetraophasis ( Clay, 1938 )
status

comb. nov.

Sinolipeurus tetraophasis ( Clay, 1938) new combination

( Figs 19 View FIGURES 19–20 , 31 View FIGURES 29–32 , 63–65 View FIGURES 57–68 , 86 View FIGURES 85–87 , 95 View FIGURES 92–95 )

Oxylipeurus tetraophasis Clay, 1938: 186 , fig. 40, pl. XIII: fig. 3.

Reticulipeurus tetraophasis (Clay) ; Złotorzycka 1966: 112.

Oxylipeurus tetraophasis Clay, 1938 ; Price et al. 2003: 204.

Type host. Tetraophasis obscurus (Verreaux, 1869) —Verreaux’s partridge.

Type locality. Yunnan [ China] .

Other host. Tetraophasis szechenyii Madarasz, 1885 —Szechenyi’s partridge.

Description.

Male. Head broad, frons broadly rounded ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 19–20 ). Marginal carina slender. Head chaetotaxy as in Figs 19 View FIGURES 19–20 and 95 View FIGURES 92–95 . Lateral margins of postantennal head converging posteriorly. Thoracic and abdominal plates and chaetotaxy as in Fig. 19 View FIGURES 19–20 . Reticulation only visible on pterosternal plate, metepisterna, and sternal and subgenital plates. Antennae as in Fig. 31 View FIGURES 29–32 ; tooth-like projection of scape prominent; rugose area of flagellomere I small. Accessory sternal plate present ( Fig. 86 View FIGURES 85–87 ). Stylus long, slender, spatulate, distal end somewhat lanceolate ( Fig. 86 View FIGURES 85–87 ). Basal apodeme broad, proximal end diffuse ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 57–68 ). Proximal mesosome broadly trapezoidal, lateral margins converging distally ( Fig. 65 View FIGURES 57–68 ); distal mesosome with distinct submedian lobes, densely rugose; antero-lateral and lateral lobes as in Fig. 65 View FIGURES 57–68 . Gonopore and ventral sclerite as in Fig. 65 View FIGURES 57–68 . Parameres as in Fig. 64 View FIGURES 57–68 ; pst2 microsetae. Measurements as in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Female. Not available.

Type material examined. Paratype ♂, Yunnan [ China], Nov.1921, R . Meinertzhagen ,3118, NHMUK010682628 About NHMUK ( NHML) .

Remarks. Clay (1938) described Oxylipeurus tetraophasis based on two males and one female from Tetraophasis obscurus from Yunnan, and one male plus two females from T. szechenyii from Szechuan (= Sichuan) and Yunnan. Clay (1938) quotes that the holotype is in the Meinertzhagen collection, but gives no repository for the other specimens. Judging from other material examined listed by Clay (1938) in a similar manner but deposited in the Meinertzhagen collection, we assume that all the specimens of O. tetraophasis were from that collection as well. However, only four slides with five lice labelled as O. tetraophasis were found in the collection at the NHML: the holotype and one paratype male from T. obscurus , Yunnan; one non-type female from T. obscurus from Kansu; and one male plus one female from Tragopan temminckii from Sichuan. The male from T. temminckii is described below as Sinolipeurus sichuanensis new species, but not the female on the same slide (see below). No specimens from T. szechenyii were found at the NHML, and those examined by Clay (1938) may be lost. We tentatively accept that Sinolipeurus tetraophasis parasitises the two hosts given by Clay (1938) because we have not examined any specimens from T. szechenyii . However, those two hosts do not overlap geographically and their estimated time of evolutionary divergence is 1.75 Myr ( Liu et al. 2014). Additional specimens of Sinolipeurus from T. szechenyii are needed to establish whether the same louse species occurs on both host species.

The non-type female from Tetraophasis obscurus labelled as Oxylipeurus tetraophasis is morphologically different from the holotype male in characters that otherwise seem to be similar between sexes in species of other genera in the Oxylipeurus -complex. Therefore, we are not certain that it is conspecific with the male. If and when more females of Sinolipeurus from T. obscurus are collected, or if the missing female is located, the description of the female of S. tetraophasis in Clay (1938) will have to be reviewed.

Type host. Tragopan temminckii (J.E. Gray, 1831) —Temminck’s tragopan.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Phthiraptera

Family

Philopteridae

Genus

Sinolipeurus

Loc

Sinolipeurus tetraophasis ( Clay, 1938 )

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Lei, Lujia, Chu, Xingzhi & Zou, Fasheng 2020
2020
Loc

Oxylipeurus tetraophasis Clay, 1938

Price, R. D. & Hellenthal, R. A. & Palma, R. L. & Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. 2003: 204
2003
Loc

Reticulipeurus tetraophasis (Clay)

Zlotorzycka, J. 1966: 112
1966
Loc

Oxylipeurus tetraophasis Clay, 1938: 186

Clay, T. 1938: 186
1938
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