Trabeculus mirabilis (Kellogg, 1896)

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Trabeculus mirabilis (Kellogg, 1896)

Giebelia mirabilis Kellogg, 1896a: 138 , pl. 11, figs 7–8.

Giebelia mirabilis Kellogg, 1896 ; Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902: 482.

Giebelia mirabilis Kellogg, 1896 ; Kellogg 1906: 320.

Trabeculus mirabilis (Kellogg, 1896) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 349.

Trabeculus mirabilis (Kellogg, 1896) ; Clay in Linsley & Usinger 1966: 132.

Lectotype ♂ in EMEC (designated below).

Type host: Puffinus opisthomelas Coues, 1864 .

Galápagos host: Puffinus subalaris Ridgway, 1897 .

Galápagos localities: Isla Wolf; Isla Isabela.

Galápagos references: Kellogg & Kuwana (1902); Kellogg (1906); Kellogg (1908: 34); Thompson (1939: 213); Linsley & Usinger (1966).

Other significant references: Timmermann (1959: 496, fig. 8); Timmermann (1965: 132, fig. 72); Palma (1996: 229); Price et al. (2003: 245).

Material examined: 3 females (2 samples, EMEC) .

Remarks: Puffinus subalaris is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. Although Dickinson (2003: 76) listed the host of this louse as Puffinus lherminieri subalaris , we regard it as a full species following Austin et al. (2004: 859). No specimen of Trabeculus was collected from five specimens of Puffinus subalaris searched for lice during the 1992 Galápagos Expedition. From the Kellogg Collection, we examined the two females reported by Kellogg & Kuwana (1902: 482), and one female of the material reported by Kellogg (1906: 320), all from Puffinus subalaris , and identified them as Trabeculus mirabilis . Price et al. (2003: 245) listed four species of Puffinus as hosts of T. mirabilis including Puffinus subalaris , but cited as “ P. lherminieri ”.

For the original description of Giebelia mirabilis, Kellogg (1896: 138) examined “Four males and five females …”. As no lectotype has been selected yet, we herewith designate the male on Kellogg Collection slide 139 “fig’d” as the lectotype of Giebelia mirabilis , with the remaining seven specimens from Puffinus opisthomelas (2 males and 5 females on slides 139, 140a, 498a, 502a, 507a, 512a) as paralectotypes, all deposited in EMEC .

Genus Vernoniella Guimarães, 1942

Vernonia Guimarães, 1936 . Rev. Mus . Paulista. 20: 221. Type species: Lipeurus macgregori Kellogg, 1899 = Vernoniella macgregori (Kellogg, 1899) (by original designation). Preoccupied by Vernonia Buchanan White, 1878 .

Vernoniella Guimarães, 1942 . Pap. Avulsos Dep. Zool. São Paulo 2: 133. Nomen novum for Vernonia Guimarães, 1936 .