Rallicola (Rallicola) titicacae (Carriker, 1944)

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Rallicola (Rallicola) titicacae (Carriker, 1944)

Furnaricola titicacae Carriker, 1944b: 91 , pl. 4: figs 7–8; pl. 5: fig. 4.

Rallicola titicacae (Carriker, 1944) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 321.

Rallicola titicacae (Carriker, 1944) ; Price & Clayton 1994: 653, figs 12, 21.

Rallicola (Rallicola) titicacae (Carriker, 1944) ; Price et al. 2003: 231.

Furnaricola titicacae Carriker, 1944 ; González-Acuña et al. 2006c: 212.

Holotype ♂ in USNM (see Emerson 1967: 85).

Type host: Phleocryptes melanops schoenobaenus Cabanis & Heine, 1860 .

Chilean host: Phleocryptes melanops melanops (Vieillot, 1817) .

Other host: Synallaxis moesta cabanisi Berlepsch & Leverkühn, 1890 . Chilean locality: Laguna Santa Elena: Region XVI. Geographic distribution: Southern South America. Chilean reference: González-Acuña et al. (2006c). Other significant references: Price & Clayton (1994); Price et al. (2003). Remarks: As stated in the Methods and conventions above, we follow the taxonomy used by Price et al. (2003);

therefore, we do not recognise the genus Furnaricola as valid, and revert this losue species to the subgenus

Rallicola (Rallicola) .