Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen

Price, Roger D. & Weckstein, Jason D., 2006, Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from jacamars and puffbirds (Piciformes: Galbulidae, Bucconidae), with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 1367, pp. 37-50 : 38-39

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.174824

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6263651

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scientific name

Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen
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Genus Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen

Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen 1938:74 . Type species: Picicola praeposterus Clay and Meinertzhagen by original designation. Now recognized as P. snodgrassi (Kellogg) .

A thorough characterization of this genus may be found in the works cited by Valim and Linardi (2006). We provide here only the diagnostic characters that are pertinent to define the genus as it pertains to the jacamar and puffbird lice and serve to distinguish them as a unit from Picicola species found on various families of the suboscine Passeriformes and on the woodpeckers ( Piciformes View in CoL : Picidae View in CoL ).

General morphology as in Figs. 1 and 2 View FIGURES 1 – 13. 1 – 6 . Head evenly rounded anteriorly, longer than wide, with temple slightly wider than preantennal portion; with conspicuous transverse dorsal preantennal suture; with well-developed complete marginal carina; each side of temple with two long marginal setae. Thorax with small quadrangular pronotum bearing single seta at each posterior corner; metanotum with four very long setae on each side; thoracic sternal plate large, with setae as shown. Abdomen slender, much longer than wide; tergites II–IX undivided medially; postspiracular setae very long on III–VII, shorter on VIII. Tergite II with medioanterior pair of setae in addition to medioposterior tergocentral setae. Female and male subgenital plates of fused sternites VII–IX. Male genitalia with prominent inwardly-curved parameres, a median slender penis, and complex of endomeral structures.

There is only slight sexual dimorphism, which is limited to males having somewhat smaller dimensions and differences associated with the posterior abdomen. Characters cited above for the genus will not be repeated in the species descriptions.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Phthiraptera

Family

Philopteridae

Loc

Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen

Price, Roger D. & Weckstein, Jason D. 2006
2006
Loc

Picicola

Clay 1938: 74
1938
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