Pseudomenopon pilosum ( Scopoli, 1763 )

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 : 41

Pseudomenopon pilosum ( Scopoli, 1763)

Pediculus pilosus Scopoli, 1763: 384 .

Menopon tridens Burmeister, 1838: 440 .

Pseudomenopon tridens (Nitzsch) [sic]; Ferris 1924: 63, fig. 4.

Pseudomenopon pilosum ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 302.

Pseudomenopon pilosum ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Price 1974: 73, figs 1–6, 11, 18, 21–22.

Pseudomenopon pilosum ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Price et al. 2003: 135.

Pseudomenopon pilosum ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Cicchino 2011: 102, figs 1–3, 8–13, 32, 42, 47.

Pseudomenopon pilosum ( Scopoli, 1763) ; Palma 2017: 77.

Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay & Hopkins 1951: 19).

Type host: Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758 .

Chilean hosts: Fulica armillata Vieillot, 1817 ; Fulica cornuta Bonaparte, 1853 .

Other hosts: Hydrophasianus chirurgus (Scopoli, 1786) ; Podica senegalensis (Vieillot, 1817) ; seven species of Fulica , and five species of Gallinula (see Price et al. 2003: 136).

Chilean localities: Antofagasta: Region II .

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean references: Price (1974: 75); Cicchino (2011: 103).

Other significant references: Ferris (1924); Clay & Hopkins (1951: 19); Tendeiro (1965a: 19, photos 2–3, 22, 32, 43, 52); Price (1974); Lakshminarayana (1977: 56); Palma (1996: 142); Martín-Mateo (2002: 42, figs 9–10); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Pseudomenopon pilosum is a frequently collected species from a large number of hosts ( Palma 2017). Bartlett & Anderson (1987) demonstrated the transmission of the filarioid nematode Pelecitus fulicaeatrae (Diesing, 1861) by this louse.

Genus Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954

Psittacobrosus Carriker, 1954 : Rev. Bras. Entomol. 2, 150. Type species: Psittacobrosus burmeisteri kelloggi Carriker, 1954 = Psittacobrosus kelloggi Carriker, 1954 (by original designation).