Philopterus ansarii Naz, Najer & Gustafsson

Naz, Saima, Najer, Tomas & Gustafsson, Daniel R., 2020, An annotated list of the species of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) described by Mohammad A. - R. Ansari, Zootaxa 4809 (3), pp. 401-448 : 433

Philopterus ansarii Naz, Najer & Gustafsson , nomen novum

Philopterus kalkalichi Ansari, 1956e: 17 , figs 30–32. Junior primary homonym.

Philopterus kalkalichi Ansari, 1956e ; Palma & Price 2006: 7.

Philopterus kalkalichi Ansari, 1956e ; Sychra et al. 2011: 53 , figs 1–4, 11–14.

Current status: Philopterus ansarii Naz, Najer & Gustafsson, 2020 .

Type host: Dicrurus macrocercus harterti Baker.

Type locality: Puli Nantou hsien, Taiwan .

Type material: Neotype male deposited in PIPeR, and neoparatypes in PIPeR and UMSP. Designated below.

Remarks: We formally replace the invalid name “ Philopterus kalkalichi Ansari, 1956e ” with the new name, Philopterus ansarii . The ICZN (1999, Code Recommendation 60A) establishes that the same type specimen should be used for any replacement name of a junior homonym. However, equally to the type material of Brueelia kalkalichi ( Ansari, 1955e) , the five type specimens of Philopterus kalkalichi Ansari, 1956e are presumed lost. Therefore, we designate as the neotype: a male from Dicrurus macrocercus harterti Baker , with the following data: Puli Nantou hsien, Taiwan, Nov.–Dec. 1963 and Jan. 1964, T.C. Maa leg., deposited in PIPeR (number TMT 239), and as neoparatypes: two males, three females, with the same collecting data as the neotype, deposited in PIPeR and UMSP (numbers TMT 239, 49, 95, 11–12 and 2151). These specimens were fully described and illustrated by Sychra et al. (2011), but incorrectly named as “ Philopterus kalkalichi Ansari, 1955 ”.