Kelerimenopon aepypodi PRICE & EMERSON, 1966

Mey, Eberhard, 2013, Chewing lice (Insecta, Phthiraptera) off Bruijn’s Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijnii from New Guinea (AVes, Galliformes, Megapodiidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 63 (2), pp. 313-323 : 314

Kelerimenopon aepypodi PRICE & EMERSON, 1966

Host: Aepypodius bruijnii (OUSTALET, 1880) .

Material examined:

1 ♀, 1 larva (M. 3482. a, e) off a skin (3745) in ZIMH, 31.12.1909 Waigeo, leg. E. Mey (16.iv.1990).

Remarks:

In the absence of additional and better preserved material, the female is provisionally assigned to K. aepypodi PRICE & EMERSON, 1966 (type host: Aepypodius arfakianus ), with which it shares the prolongations of the inner ventro-posterior pleural corners on sternites ii-vii pointing posteriorly, the ventral brush of setae on femur III and laterally on sternites iv-vi (the last apparently in very low numbers), and a very similar setae pattern on the ventral terminalia. However it does not possess a frontally pointed head and shows, like Lorimenopon PRICE & EMERSON, 1966 , a broad, deep preocular notch. In addition it has a pronotal margin with 17 setae and metanotal margin with 22 setae.

Measurements:

TL 1.5, HL 0.36, HW 0.43, HWT 0.58, HI 0.62, PW 0.42, MW 0.52, AW 0.79.