Quadraceps sellatus houri Hopkins, 1949

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 104

Quadraceps sellatus houri Hopkins, 1949 New record

Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949b: 52 , pl. 3: figs 9–10.

Quadraceps sellatus houri Hopkins, 1949 ; Timmermann 1952a: 79.

Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949 ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 312.

Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949 ; Timmermann 1957: 71, pl. 7: figs a,b.

Koeniginirmus (Laminonirmus) houri (Hopkins, 1949) ; Złotorzycka 1967: 758.

Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949 ; Clay & Moreby 1967: 164, 169, fig. 146.

Quadraceps houri Hopkins, 1949 ; Price et al. 2003: 224.

Quadraceps sellatus houri Hopkins, 1949 ; Palma 2017: 183.

Holotype ♀ in NHML.

Type host: Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 .

Chilean host: Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 .

Other hosts: Sterna vittata vittata Gmelin, 1789 ; Sterna vittata bethunei Buller, 1896 .

Chilean locality: Isla Gonzalo (Diego Ramírez Islands): Region XII.

Geographic distribution: Arctic and Subantarctic; Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Chilean reference: This catalogue.

Other significant references: Timmermann (1952a; 1957); Clay & Moreby (1967); Złotorzycka (1967); Palma (1996: 212); Price et al. (2003); Hänel & Palma (2007: 113, 127, 131); Palma (2010: 408); Palma (2017).

Remarks: This is the first record of Quadraceps sellatus houri from Chile, based on a sample from Sterna paradisaea held in MONZ. In agreement with Palma (2017: 183) and contrary to Price et al. (2003: 224), we regard this louse taxon as a subspecies of Quadraceps sellatus .