Ardeicola expallidus Blagoveshtchensky, 1940

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 : 51-52

Ardeicola expallidus Blagoveshtchensky, 1940 New record

Ardeicola expallida [sic] Blagoveshtchensky, 1940: 69, 89, fig. 21.

Ardeicola gaibagla Ansari, 1947: 256 , fig. 1.

Ardeicola albulus Eichler, 1948c: 107 , figs 2–3.

Ardeicola albulus Eichler, 1948 ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 38.

Ardeicola expallidus Blagoveshtchensky, 1940 ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 39. Emendation.

Ardeicola gaibagla Ansari, 1947 ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 39.

Ardeicola gaibagla Ansari, 1947 ; Tuff 1967: 251, figs 17–19.

Ardeicola expallida Blagoveshtchensky, 1940 ; Tuff 1970: 484.

Ardeicola albulus Eichler, 1948 ; Mey 1994: 33, figs 15–16.

Ardeicola expallidus Blagoveshtchensky, 1940 ; Price et al. 2003: 148.

Ardeicola expallidus Blagoveshtchensky, 1940 ; Palma 2017: 87.

Syntypes ♂ ♀, repository unknown, but probably in ZMAS (see Palma 2017: 87) .

Type host: Egretta garzetta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) .

Chilean host: Bubulcus ibis ibis ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Other hosts: Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758 ; Ardea modesta J.E. Gray, 1831 ; Bubulcus ibis coromandus (Boddaert, 1783) ; Egretta garzetta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) ; Egretta garzetta immaculata (Gould, 1846) ; Egretta thula (Molina, 1782) .

Chilean locality: At sea, west of Santiago: Region RM.

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean reference: This catalogue.

Other significant references: Tuff (1967); Tuff (1970); Mey (1994); Palma (1996: 156); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2017).

Remarks: This is the first record of Ardeicola expallidus from Chile, based on one sample from Bubulcus ibis ibis held in MONZ.