Brueelia (Painjunirmus) magnini ( Ansari, 1956 )

Gustafsson, Daniel R. & Bush, Sarah E., 2024, Resurrection of Painjunirmus Ansari, 1947 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) as a subgenus of Brueelia Kéler, 1936, with description of one new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 968, pp. 174-199 : 190-193

Brueelia (Painjunirmus) magnini ( Ansari, 1956)

Figs 33–40

Brueelia magnini Ansari, 1956a: 161 , figs 67–70.

Brueelia magnini – Price et al. 2003: 156. — Gustafsson & Bush 2017: 40. — Mey 2017: 158.

Type material

Holotype SUDAN • ♂; Dec. 1947; R. Meinertzhagen leg., ex Argya fulva acaciae ( Lichtenstein, 1823) [as Turdoides fulvus acaciae ]; 17066–17068; NHMUK010670707 ; NHMUK .

Allotype SUDAN • ♀; same data as for holotype; 17066–17068; NHMUK010670707 ; NHMUK.

Paratypes (ex Argya fulva acaciae [as Turdoides fulvus acaciae ]) SUDAN • 6 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; 17066–17068; NHMUK010670707 , NHMUK010708922 ; NHMUK .

Other material eamined

SUDAN • 4 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; 17066–17068; NHMUK010709541 ; NHMUK .

Type host

Argya fulva acaciae ( Lichtenstein, 1823) – fulvous chatterer.

Type locality

Sudan.

Description

Both sexes

Head convex dome-shaped ( Fig. 35 ), lateral margins of preantennal head convex, frons shallowly concave. Marginal carina shallowly displaced and much widened at osculum, lateral sections moderate with irregular median margin. Ventral anterior plate not visible. Head chaetotaxy as in Fig. 35 . Head pigmentation pale, with dark pigmentation only at preantennal and preocular nodi, and light pigmentation along marginal carina; most examined specimens are dyed red, and pigmentation patterns cannot be determined. Thoracic and abdominal segments as in Figs 33–34 ; proepimera, anterior and posterior sections of sternal plates, and lateral margins of tergopleurites with brown pigmentation.

Male

Scape as in Fig. 35 . Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 33 ; aps absent from tergopleurite III; tps present on tergopleurites VI –VIII; segments III – VII with 2 ps on each side. Sternal plates without lateral extensions. Subgenital plate with pigmentation on anterior margin and central part. Basal apodeme broad, constricted at mid-length and again near distal end ( Fig. 37 ). Proximal mesosome more or less quadratic, narrowing slightly distally ( Fig. 38 ). Mesosomal lobes with near-parallel to slightly convergent lateral margins distally, antero-lateral horns broad, more or less straight, widely divergent. Rugose area of distal mesosome extensive; pmes as in Fig. 38 . Gonopore slender, distal margin deeply concave; ames as in Fig. 38 . Parameres slender, much elongated; pst1–2 as in Fig. 39.

MEASUREMENTS (n = 5 except TL where n = 4). TL = 1.42–1.56; HL = 0.36–0.38; HW = 0.32–0.33; PRW = 0.20–0.23; PTW = 0.33–0.36; AW = 0.47–0.51.

Female

Scape as in Fig. 36 . Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 34 ; segment III with 2 ps on each side, segments IV–VIII with 3 ps on each side. Sternal plates without lateral extensions. Subgenital plate broad ( Fig. 40 ), narrowing only gradually distally, with broad connection to cross-piece. Vulval margin gently rounded ( Fig. 40 ), with 4 short, slender vms and 4–6 short, thorn-like vss on each side; 4–6 short, slender vos on each side of subgenital plate; distal 1 vos median to vss.

MEASUREMENTS (n = 8). TL = 1.80–1.91; HL =0.39–0.41; HW = 0.35–0.38; PRW = 0.23–0.24; PTW = 0.36–0.38; AW = 0.56–0.59.

Figures

Figs 33–34. Brueelia (Painjunirmus) magnini Ansari, 1956. 33. ♂, habitus, dorsal and ventral views. 34. ♀, habitus, dorsal and ventral views.

Figs 35–40. Brueelia (Painjunirmus) magnini Ansari, 1956a. 35. ♂, head, dorsal and ventral views. 36. ♀, antenna, ventral side. 37. ♂, genitalia, dorsal view. 38. ♂, mesosome, ventral view. 39. ♂, paramere, dorsal view. 40. ♀, subgenital plate and vulval margin, ventral view.