Ornicholax alienus ( Giebel, 1874 )

Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís F., 2014, A new species and five new records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) from an isolated population of the solitary tinamou Tinamus solitarius (Aves: Tinamiformes), Zootaxa 3838 (1), pp. 127-142 : 132

Ornicholax alienus ( Giebel, 1874)

Goniocotes alienus Giebel, 1874: 191 .

Ornicholax robustus taoi Carriker (1936: 171, pl. 30, fig. 1) . Ornicholax solitarius Guimarães & Lane (1937: 3, fig. 1) . Ornicholax alienus carrikeri Guimarães (1948: 169, fig. 6) . Ornicholax alienus ( Giebel, 1874) ; Hopkins & Clay (1952: 252).

Material examined: 1♂, 4♀ ( MZUSP #3204–3207), Mata do Othon (09°50'S; 35°54'W), Barra de São Miguel, Alagoas, Brazil, 21 Feb. 1979, D.M. Teixeira coll. 1♀ ( MZUSP #5768), Roteiro (09°50'S; 35°58'W), Alagoas, Brazil, Nov. 1978, P.M. Nardelli coll. (W.C.A. Bokermann leg.)

Remarks: This species is commonly found on T. solitarius solitarius (see Guimarães & Lane 1937, Kéler 1938) and also occurs on T. tao tao (see Guimarães 1942b, 1948). The material listed above was identified by comparison with those mounted and determined by L.R. Guimarães, deposited in MZUSP collection, as well as with the redescription by Kéler (1938).