Cimex furnarii, Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928

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Acanthocrios furnarii ( Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928) comb. nov.

Cimex furnarii Cordero & Vogelsang 1928: 671 –673 [descr.; distr.; figs.]; Del Ponte & Riesel 1945: 473 [distr.; hosts]; Lent & Ábalos 1946: 347 [anat.].

Cimex passerinus Cordero & Vogelsang 1928: 674 –676 [descr.; distr.; figs.]; Usinger 1966: 468 –469 [refs.], 471 [syn.].

Ornithocoris furnarii: Romaña & Ábalos 1947: 80 [distr.; hosts]; Wygodzinsky 1951: 187 [key nymphs I], 195–196 [distr.; biol.], figs. 7–9, 47–50; Wygodzinsky 1959a: 529 [distr.]; Wygodzinsky 1959b: 485 –486 [hosts]; Hicks 1959: 248 [refs.; host], 447–448 [host; refs.]; Ronderos 1961: 33 [map], 34–35 [distr.]; Sakamoto et al. 2006: 3162 [table], 3166 [table].

Caminicimex furnarii : Usinger 1966: 468 –471 [comb. nov.; descr.; distr.; hosts]; Hicks 1971: 167 [refs.; host], 255 [host; refs.]; Andrade Figueiredo 1995: 23 [distr.; host]; Aramburú & Carpintero 2006: 85 [distr.; hosts]; Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007 [distr.; refs.; hosts]; Carpintero & Aramburú 2007: 153 –156 [distr.; hosts].

Acanthocrios furnarii has always been associated with the “hornero” [ Furnarius rufus (Gmelin, 1788) ] in Argentina and Uruguay ( Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007), but recently the bug was found in nests of Hirundo rustica [erythrogaster Boddaert, 1789], Progne chalybea [domestica (Vieillot, 1817)] ( Aramburú & Carpintero 2006) and also Progne elegans Baird, 1865 [Aves: Hirundinidae ] from Buenos Aires ( Carpintero & Aramburú 2007). Swallows are probably the primary hosts of Acanthocrios furnarii , and the bugs’ presence in such other nests as those of Furnarius rufus and A. annumbi , is probably due to nest parasitism by bird species ( Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007). Cimicidae are known to remain for a long time in swallows´nests, and can go without feeding for prolonged periods when swallows abandon some nesting sites; sometimes during these times engorged bugs have been found with other animals that used the cliff swallow nests ( Loye 1985). It is not known if A. furnarii can survive and form large colonies in the nests of birds other than swallows ( Table 1).