Gyropus cruzi ( Werneck, 1933 )

Valim, Michel P. & Linardi, Pedro Marcos, 2008, A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae), Zootaxa 1899, pp. 1-24 : 4

Gyropus cruzi ( Werneck, 1933)

Tetragyropus cruzi Werneck 1933: 153 , fig. 1 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 2 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 3 (detail of the antenna), fig. 4 (head, dorso-ventral view), fig. fig. 5 (sternal plates), fig. 6 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 7 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 8 (exposed male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 9 (third nymphal habitus, dorsal view). Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo. Type host: Euryzygomatomys spinosus catellus (= Euryzygomatomys spinosus Fischer ) (after Werneck 1934b). Typology: Holotype female, ‘allotype’ male, six male, two female, and nine nymphal paratypes held by FIOC. One male and one famale paratype were donated to BMNH.

Werneck 1934a: 281 (citation). Werneck 1934b: 167 (remark about a missed seta on the mesosternal plate lacking in original description).

Gyropus cruzi, Werneck 1936a: 431 (citation). Werneck 1948: 61 (notes on male genitalia), fig. 43 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 44 (detail of the genital sclerite, dorsal view), fig. 45 (detail of the mesomeral plate). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 160 (checklist). Emerson and Price 1981: 44 (host-parasite checklist). Cicchino and Castro 1990: 322 (checklist of Gyropus species on Echimyidae ). Cicchino and Castro 1998b: 99 (synopsis of Argentine species, assumption of geographical occurrence), 103 (host-parasite list of Argentine species). Cardoso-de-Almeida et al. 2003: 235 (list of type material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz). Price et al. 2003: 76 (checklist).

Distribution. BRAZIL (São Paulo).

Host. Euryzygomatomys spinosus (Echimyidae) .