Tinamotaecola andinae

Cicchino, Armando C., Valim, Michel P. & González-Acuña, Daniel, 2014, A review of the louse genus Tinamotaecola (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Philopteridae sensu lato), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3835 (3), pp. 349-363 : 351

andinae species-group

Moderately pigmented species with the following features: a) a narrow marginal carina in both sexes; b) no more than 10 metanotal setae in males; c) female subgenital plate with less than 41 marginal plus submarginal setae. Three species are included in this group, all parasitic on hosts belonging to the Tinamotis - Eudromia clade of the Nothurinae (Tinamidae) (see Bertelli & Chiappe 2005). All three species have been collected in Argentina, one ( Tinamotaecola elegans ) has been recorded from Paraguay, and only one ( Tinamotaecola andinae ) is known from Chile. However, considering the that their hosts are geographically distributed in Chile ( Fig. 20 ) and that these hosts have not been particularly well studied ( Martínez & González 2004), it is likely that the remaining two Tinamotaecola species will be found in that country.

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FIGURE 20. Geographical ranges of Cariama cristata, Chunga burmeisteri (Cariamidae), Tinamotis spp. and Eudromia spp. (Tinamiformes), showing sites where species of Tinamotaecola were collected from them.