Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842 )

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Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842)

Liotheum (Menopon) transversum Denny, 1842: 201 .

Liotheum (Menopon) ridibundis [sic] Denny, 1842: 201.

Liotheum (Menopon) transversus [sic] Denny, 1842: 226, pl. 21: fig. 7.

Liotheum (Menopon) ridibundus [sic] Denny, 1842: 227, pl. 20: fig. 3.

Menopon transversum Denny, 1842 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 46 (as junior synonym of Menopon ridibundum Denny, 1842 [sic]).

Austromenopon ridibundus [sic] ( Denny, 1842); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 48.

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

Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842) ; Clay 1959: 161, 164, 166, figs 15, 19, 21.

Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842) ; Clay & Moreby 1967: 158, 169, figs 63, 73.

Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842) ; González-Acuña et al. 2011a: 301.

Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842) ; Palma 2017: 53.

Austromenopon transversum ( Denny, 1842) ; González-Acuña et al. 2020b: 3, fig. 2b.

Lectotype in NHML (see Clay 1959: 166).

Type host: Rissa tridactyla ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Chilean hosts: Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein, 1823 , Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831 .

Other hosts: Pagophila eburnea (Phipps, 1774) ; Rhodostethia rosea (Macgillivray, 1924) ; Rissa brevirostris (Bruch, 1853) ; Xema sabini (Sabine, 1819) ; Creagrus furcatus (Neìboux, 1842) and at least 20 species of Larus and Leucophaeus (see Price et al. 2003: 93).

Chilean locality: Talcahuano: Region VIII.

Geographic distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Chilean reference: González-Acuña et al. (2011a); González-Acuña et al. (2020b).

Other significant references: Timmermann (1954b: 204, figs 15–16); Timmermann (1957: 97, figs 73–74); Clay (1959); Clay & Moreby (1967); Palma (1996: 119); Martín-Mateo (2002: 59, figs 18D, F, 19C, 20); Price et al. (2003: 93); Palma (2010: 407); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Austromenopon transversum is the only species of this genus parasitic on species of gulls ( Price et al. 2003: 93, 290).

Genus Bonomiella Conci, 1942

Bonomiella Conci, 1942 . Studi Trentini Scienze Naturali 23 (2), 124. Type species: Bonomiella insolitunguicolata Conci, 1942 (by original designation).