Dennyus (Dennyus) hirundinis Linnaeus, 1761

Al-Shammery, Kholoud A., 2021, New records for chewing lice of the genus Dennyus Neumann, 1906 (Phthiraptera: Amblycera) on two swifts from Saudi Arabia, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 67927-67927 : 67927

Dennyus (Dennyus) hirundinis Linnaeus, 1761

Dennyus (Dennyus) hirundinis Dennyus (Dennyus) hirundinis (L., 1761:479)

Pediculus hirundinis Linnaeus, 1761:479

Nirmus truncatus Olfers, 1816:91

Nitzschia burmeisteri Denny, 1842:202

Nitzschia tibialis Piaget, 1880:576

Dennyus africanus Büttiker, 1954:159

Dennyus clayae Nakagawa, 1959a:164

Dennyus maritimus Buttiker, 1954:160

Nitzschia minor Kellogg & Pame, 1914:242

Dennyus minutus Buttiker, 1954:160

Dennyus truncatiformis Mokhehle, 1951:341

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Kholoud A. Al-Shammery; individualCount: 1; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: 1 adult; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Phthiraptera ; family: Menoponidae ; genus: Dennyus ; subgenus: Dennyus ; specificEpithet: hirundinis; Location : country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Aja Mountain , Ha’il; Event : eventDate: February 2018

Description

Head trilobed triangular in shape, maxillary palp protruding out of the head, antenna very short, temple rectangular with characteristic highly chitinized out line, gula well developed with lateral row of four black spin-like seta and characteristic chitinization surrounding; thorax clearly divided, prothorax small quadrat shape, meso and meta thorax highly chitinized on lateral margin with acute ends; fore legs with large coxa and enlarged rounded femora, mid and hind legs slightly equal in length, ventral side of hind femora covered with elongated brush of short seta; abdomen elongated oval in shape with highly chitinized lateral margin with acute ends and two small thorn-like seta, the ventral brush appears in segment IV and V; the body of this species is highly pigmented (Fig. 3 ).

Measurements: Female HL: 0.47; HW: 0.64; HI: 0.73; TL: 0.57; AL: 1.94; TOL: 2.98 ± 0.2.

Distribution

Dennyus (Dennyus) hirundinis distribution: Palaearctic: Asia (Afghanistan, China, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand); Europe (England, Germany, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey); Afrotropical: Africa (Cameroons, Cape Verde, Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Zimbabwe).

Ecology

Local host: only one sample was collected from common swift, Apus apus .

Known hosts: Apus apus (L., 1758), common swift (type host); Aerodramus unicolor (Jerdon, 1840), Indian swiftlet; Apus alexandri Hartert, 1901, Alexander´s swift; Apus pallidus (Shelley, 1870), Pallid swift; Apus barbatus (Sclater, 1866), African swift; Apus bradfieldi (Roberts, 1926), Bradfield´s swift; Apus pacificus (Latham, 1801), fork-tailed swift; Apus acuticauda (Jerdon, 1864), dark-rumped swift; Apus affinis (Gray, 1830), little swift; Apus horus (Heuglin, 1869), Horus swift; Apus caffer (Lichtenstein, 1823), white-rumped swift.

Notes

This report constitutes a new geographical record of D. (Dennyus) hirundinis from Saudi Arabia. This species is found throughout the body of the host; the collected sample was found feeding on the eye fluid of the host during the night.

Figures

Figure 3. Female of Dennyus (Dennyus) hirundinis Linnaeus; upper left: Head; lower left: Genital region; right side: close up to the body; the scale bar is only applicable to the full body image.