Actornithophilus grandiceps ( Piaget, 1880 )

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 : 10

Actornithophilus grandiceps ( Piaget, 1880)

Colpocephalum grandiceps Piaget, 1880: 558 , pl. 46, fig. 7.

Colpocephalum grandiceps Piaget, 1880 ; Kellogg 1906: 321.

Actornithophilus grandiceps ( Piaget, 1880) ; Thompson 1938b: 207.

Actornithophilus grandiceps ( Piaget, 1880) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 21.

Actornithophilus grandiceps ( Piaget, 1880) ; Clay in Linsley & Usinger 1966: 127.

Lectotype ♂ in NHML ( Clay 1951a: 182).

Type host: Haematopus ostralegus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Galápagos host: Haematopus palliatus galapagensis Ridgway, 1886 .

Galápagos localities: Isla Marchena; Isla Santiago; Isla Santa Cruz; Isla Española.

Galápagos references: Kellogg (1906); Kellogg (1908: 56); Thompson (1938b); Linsley & Usinger (1966).

Other significant references: Clay (1962: 226); Palma (1996: 110); Price et al. (2003: 83).

Material examined: 4 males (1 pharate) and 7 females (3 samples, MONZ) .

Remarks: Kellogg (1906: 321) recorded “ C. grandiceps Piaget ” from Haematopus galapagensis . Therefore, this is not a new host-louse association, although Price et al. (2003: 289) failed to record A. grandiceps under Haematopus palliatus . No specimens of this louse species were found in the Kellogg collection. Actornithophilus grandiceps is the only species of this genus known from most Haematopus species ( Price et al. 2003: 83).