Gyropus thompsoni Werneck, 1935

Valim, Michel P. & Linardi, Pedro Marcos, 2008, A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae), Zootaxa 1899, pp. 1-24 : 18

Gyropus thompsoni Werneck, 1935 a

Gyropus thompsoni Werneck 1935a: 597 (brief description). Type locality: Brazil, Rondônia, Rio Manoel Correia, Bacia do Rio São Miguel. Type host: Isothrix bistriata Wagner. Typology : Holotype female, ‘allotype’ male, four male, seven female, and six nymphal paratypes held by FIOC. One male and one female paratype were donated to BMNH.

Werneck 1935b: 420 (full description), fig. 7 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 8 (male habitus, dorsoventral view), fig. 9 (female head, dorso-ventral view) fig. 10 (female sternal plates), fig. 11 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 12 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 13 (exposed male genitalia, dorsal view). Werneck 1936a: 431 (citation and geographic record). Werneck, 1948: 61 (notes on male genitalia), fig. 46 (male genitalia, dorso-ventral view), fig. 47 (detail of the genital sclerite). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 161 (checklist). Emerson and Price 1975: 4 (key to Venezuelan species), 31 (geographical record, infestation data), fig. 79 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 80 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 81 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 82 (male genitalia and detail of the genital sclerite, dorsal view). Emerson and Price 1981: 44 (host-parasite checklist). Cicchino and Castro 1990: 322 (checklist of Gyropus species on Echimyidae ). Cardoso-de-Almeida et al. 2003: 235 (list of type material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz). Price et al. 2003: 77 (checklist).

Distribution. BOLIVIA (no data), BRAZIL (Rondônia), VENEZUELA (Amazonas).

Host. Isothrix bistriata (Echimyidae) .