Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842 )

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Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842) New record

Menopon Transversum [sic] Denny, 1842: 201.

Menopon transversus Denny, 1842: 226 , pl. 21, fig. 7.

Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 48.

Lectotype ♀ in NHML ( Clay (1959: 166).

Type host: Rissa tridactyla ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Galápagos hosts: Creagrus furcatus (Néboux, 1842) ; Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831 .

Galápagos localities: Isla Genovesa; Isla Seymour; Isla Santa Cruz; Isla Champion (near Isla Floreana).

Galápagos references: This paper.

Other significant references: Timmermann (1954b: 204, fig. 15–16); Timmermann (1957: 97, figs 73–74); Clay (1959: 161, 164, 166–167, figs 15, 19, 21); Clay & Moreby (1967: 158, 169, figs 63, 73); Choe & Kim (1987: 3000, 3002); Palma (1996: 119); Price et al. (2003: 93).

Material examined: 11 males, 17 females and 31 nymphs (6 samples, MONZ) .

Remarks: This is the first record of Austromenopon transversum from the Galápagos Islands, and also a new hostlouse association for Creagrus furcatus . This louse species is the only Austromenopon known from all species of gulls ( Price et al. 2003: 93, 290).

Genus Colpocephalum Nitzsch, 1818

Colpocephalum Nitzsch, 1818 . Germar’s Mag. Ent. 3: 298. Type species: Colpocephalum zebra Burmeister, 1838 (by subsequent designation).

Ferrisia Uchida, 1926 . Jour. Coll. Agric. Tokyo 9: 43. Type species: Colpocephalum turbinatum Denny, 1842 (by original designation). Preoccupied by Ferrisia Fullaway, 1923 .

Neocolpocephalum Ewing, 1933 . Jour. Parasit. 20: 65. Nomen novum for Ferrisia Uchida, 1926 .

Corvocolpocephalum Conci, 1942 . Boll. Soc. Ent. Italiana 74: 30. Type species: Colpocephalum subaequale “Nitzsch in Burm. 1838” = Colpocephalum fregili Denny, 1842 (by original designation).

Liothella Eichler, 1947 . Arkiv Zool. 39A (2): 15. Type species: Colpocephalum leptopygos Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1874 (by original designation).

Pelecanigogus Eichler, 1949 . Boll. Soc. Ent. Italiana 79: 12. Type species: Colpocephalum eucarenum “Ntz i. Brm.” (by original designation).

Galliferrisia Ansari, 1951 . Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India 17: 150. Type species: Galliferrisia tausi Ansari, 1951 (by original designation).