Valim & Palma, 2015 : 483 Valim & Palma, 2015 : 484 Morphological revision of the hyperdiverse Brueelia - complex (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) with new taxa, checklists and generic key Bush, Sarah E. Zootaxa 2017 2017-08-31 4313 1 1 443  Valim & Palma, 2015 : 483  Valim & Palma, 2015 : 484 Valim & Palma, 2015 Valim & Palma 2015 [151,579,152,178] Insecta Philopteridae Melibrueelia GBIF Animalia Phthiraptera 214 215 Arthropoda genus     Melibrueelia  Valim & Palma, 2015: 483.    Typespecies.  Melibrueelia novaeseelandiae Valim & Palma, 2015: 484, by original designation.   Diagnosis. Valim & Palma (2015)compared this genus with  Brueelia s. str., “  Brueelia s. lat.” (=  Priceiella n. subgen.),  Corvonirmus, and  Turdinirmus. We refer to their description for details on how to separate  Melibrueeliafrom these genera. For a comparison with  Nemuus  n. gen., see the diagnosis for this genus above.   Description. Both sexes. Head pentagonal, wider in male than in female ( Valim & Palma 2015: fig. 2). Marginal caina interrupted laterally and submedianly, no displaced section at osculum. Frons hyaline. Dorsal preantennal suture continuous with hyaline margin, reaching adsand dsms, and completely separating dorsal anterior plate from main head plate. Ventral carina not continuous with marginal carina. Ventral anterior plate present, crescent-shaped. Coni small, slender. Antennae sexually dimorphic, with male scapes more than twice as long and twice as wide as female scapes, and more distal segments modified as in Valim & Palma (2015: fig. 2 A). Head setae as in Valim & Palma (2015: fig. 2); as3absent; pnspresent, sensilliform; poson marginal temporal carina. Temporal carinae not visible;  mts3only macrosetae. Gular plate broadly triangular. Prothorax rectangular ( Valim & Palma 2015: fig. 1); ppsson postero-lateral corners. Proepimera oblique, moderate, curled around coxae II. Pterothorax pentagonal: lateral margins highly divergent, posterior margin convergent to slight median rounded point; mmsmoderately (in males) or widely (in females) separated medianly. Meso- and metathorax not fused, each with 1 seta on postero-lateral corner on each side. Let chaetotaxy as in Fig. 25, except fI-p2absent; fI-p3ventral, submarginal, thorn-like. Abdomen rounded in male, more oblong in female ( Valim & Palma 2015: fig. 1). Abdominal chaetotaxy as in Table 2. Tergopleurites II–XI in male and II–VIII in female narrowly divided medianly; tergopleurites roughly triangular in male but roughly rectangular in female. Tergopleurites IX+X and XI fused in female. Sternal plates rectangular, broad, but not approaching lateral margins of abdomen; sternal plates very slender in male. Pleural incrassations slender. Ventral section of tergopleurites very narrow. Re-entrant heads slight, blunt. Malesubgenital plate roughly trapezoidal, with anterior margin rounded, posterior end reaching terminal end of abdomen and there often widening slightly. Female subgenital plate rounded triangular, reaching vulval margin and there flaring into broad cross-pieces ( Valim & Palma 2015: fig. 1B); plate with conspicuous reticulation. Vulval margin gently rounded, but median section concave; lateral to concave section vulval margin is thickened. Slender vmsand thornlike vss; vosfollow lateral margins of subgenital plate, with distal vosmedian to vss. Basal apodeme ( Valim & Palma 2015: fig. 1C) rounded trapezoidal, anterior end slightly wider than posterior end. Proximal mesosome slender, widening in proximal end. Mesosomal lobes slender, fused and extended somewhat distally. Ventral surface with large rugose area surrounding ventrally located gonopore; 3 amesmicrosetae on each side antero-lateral to gonopore; 2 pmesmicrosetae on each side, on lateral margins posterolateral to gonopore (not illustrated by Valim & Palma 2015). Parameral heads folded medianly, rectangular. Parameral blades connected to parameral heads by slender neck, bulging in mid-section, and tapering distally; pst1–2sensilla, central, near distal end of parameres.     Hostdistribution.Only known from New Zealand honeyeaters( Meliphagidae).  Geographical range.New Zealand.   Remarks.We do not include illustrations or a description of  Melibrueelia novaeseelandiae—the typeand only species of the genus—because it was recently described and well illustrated by Valim & Palma (2015). Norepresentative of  Melibrueeliawas included in the phylogeny of Bush et al. (2016). Included species   *  Melibrueelia novaeseelandiae  Valim & Palma, 2015: 484 1587279517 [199,1103,1538,1563] New Zealand Host 214 215 1 Host