Strigiphilus tuleskovi Balát, 1958

(Fig. 40–44)

Strigiphilus tuleškovi Balát, 1958: 418 .

Type host: Otus scops scops (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Strigiphilus senegalensis Tendeiro, 1963: 75, fig. 24, photos 61–64; Clayton & Price 1984: 347.

Type host: Otus senegalensis senegalensis (Swainson, 1837) .

Strigiphilus tuleskovi Balát, 1958; Clayton & Price 1984: 347, figs 13, 34, 56.

Strigiphilus tuleskovi Balát, 1958; Price et al. 2003: 240.

Specimens examined. Ex Otus sunia japonicus: 1♂, 1♀ (slide-mounted), Japan (no other collecting data available) (SEHU); 2♀ (preserved in alcohol), same data (SEHU) .

Diagnosis. Strigiphilus tuleskovi is morphologically similar to S. stenocephalus, but it can be distinguished from the latter species by (1) its smaller head (male: HL <0.5, TW <0.43; female: HL <0.6, TW <0.48), (2) longer male genitalia compared with total body length, and (3) the configuration of the mesosome of the male genitalia, in particular the shape of the dorsal genitalic plate (Figs 37, 42; see also Clayton & Price 1984, fig. 56).

Japanese host: Otus sunia japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 (new host association)

Other hosts: Otus scops scops (Linnaeus, 1758), Otus sunia stictonotus (Sharpe, 1875), Otus senegalensis senegalensis (Swainson, 1837), Otus senegalensis hendersoni (Cassin, 1852) .