Paraclisis confidens (Kellogg, 1899)

Palma, Ricardo L. & Peck, Stewart B., 2013, <strong> An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands </ strong>, Zootaxa 3627 (1), pp. 1-87 : 68

Paraclisis confidens (Kellogg, 1899)

Kéler (1957a: 286) listed 20 specimens of Paraclisis confidens (Kellogg, 1899) [as Harrisoniella confidens ] from “ Diomedea irrorata Salvin , Galapagos, Coll. Meinertzhagen Nr. 8179 (3 MP)” and eight specimens with same data but “Nr 8180/1 (1 MP)”. Slide data associated with the type specimens of Docophoroides irroratae and with two females of Harrisoniella copei from Phoebastria irrorata (see above under these species) are identical to data given by Kéler (1957a: 286) for the Paraclisis confidens discussed here. We conclude that all these lice are stragglers or contaminants from Phoebastria nigripes (see also Palma 1994a: 66). Therefore, we delete Paraclisis confidens from the louse fauna of the Galápagos Islands.