Machaerilaemus laticapitus Price, Hellenthal, & Dalgleish, 2002

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 31

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766650
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F1388797-FFCA-8406-FF48-52B1FCB88FED
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scientific name	Machaerilaemus laticapitus Price, Hellenthal, & Dalgleish, 2002
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Machaerilaemus laticapitus Price, Hellenthal, & Dalgleish, 2002 View in CoL

Machaerilaemus laticapitus Price, Hellenthal, & Dalgleish, 2002: 71 View in CoL .

Machaerilaemus laticapitus Price, Hellenthal, & Dalgleish, 2002 View in CoL ; Price et al. 2003: 116.

Machaerilaemus laticapitus View in CoL ; Beltrán-Saavedra 2015: 39.

Holotype ♀ in KCEM.

Type host: Leptasthenura aegithaloides (Kittlitz, 1830) .

Chilean host: Leptasthenura aegithaloides (Kittlitz, 1830) .

Other hosts: None.

Chilean locality: Copiapó: Region III.

Geographic distribution: Argentina; western Bolivia; Chile; southern Perú.

Chilean reference: Price et al. (2002: 72); Beltrán-Saavedra (2015).

Other significant reference: Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: At present, Machaerilaemus laticapitus is known only from Chile ( Price et al. 2002: 72) and, despite the extensive geographical range covered by four subspecies of Leptasthenura aegithaloides , it is the only louse species known from this host ( Price et al. 2003: 347).