Penenirmus, Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1938

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Adam, Costică & Zou, Fasheng, 2022, One new genus and three new species of the Penenirmus-complex (Phthiraptera Ischnocera) from China, with resurrection of Picophilopterus Ansari, 1947, Zootaxa 5087 (3), pp. 401-426 : 403

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5826908
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scientific name	Penenirmus
status

Treatment

Penenirmus View in CoL -complex

Included genera

Penenirmus Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1938

Penenirmus Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1938a: 73 View in CoL .

Alaudinirmus Złotorzycka, 1964: 273 View in CoL .

Panurinirmus Złotorzycka, 1964: 270 View in CoL .

Paranirmus Złotorzycka, 1964: 275 View in CoL .

Pleurinirmus Złotorzycka, 1964: 275 View in CoL .

Picophilopterus Ansari, 1947 View in CoL

Picophilopterus Ansari, 1947: 265 View in CoL .

Laimoloima new genus

Turnicola Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1938

Turnicola Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1938b: 278 View in CoL . [1]

[1] Included based on the phylogeny in Johnson et al. (2021: fig. 1).

Remarks. No clear definition of the Penenirmus -complex has been published, but Mey (1992) suggested that the absence of the head seta pos is a good synapomorphy for Penenirmus + Picophilopterus . This seta appears to be present in Penenirmus rafflesi Dalgleish, 1967 [now in Laimoloima ] and pos is also absent in the distantly related Acronirmus Eichler, 1953b ( Gustafsson & Bush 2017). Therefore, it is not a good character to group Penenirmus with Picophilopterus . The structure of the male genitalia is perhaps a better character to define this complex, but a thorough redescription of Turnicola is needed before useful morphological characters which would link Turnicola , Penenirmus , Picophilopterus and Laimoloima can be identified.