Philopteroides sp.

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Najer, Tomas, Zou, Fasheng & Bush, Sarah E., 2022, The ischnoceran chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) of bulbuls (Aves: Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae), with descriptions of 18 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 800, pp. 1-88 : 73

Philopteroides sp. indet. 2

Philopteroides flavala – Najer & Sychra in Najer et al. 2012: 39 . — Chu et al. 2019: 337.

Host

Hemixos castanonotus canipennis Seebohm, 1890 – chestnut bulbul.

Material examined

CHINA • 1 ♀; Guangdong Province, Ruyang, Nanling National Natural Forest, Babaoshan Management Station ; 11 Apr. 2013; Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang and Z. Huang leg.; ex Hemixos castanonotus canipennis J0830; GD-PHTH-00319 ; GIABR .

Remarks

In light of these new descriptions, we re-examined the specimen of Philopteroides reported by Chu et al. (2019) from H. c. canipennis. The specimen is poorly cleared, and many characters used in our key cannot be seen; in our key, it is impossible to get beyond couplet 9 for this specimen. Overall, there seem to be no characters that directly contradict the statement that this specimen represents Po. flavala , but we prefer to consider this specimen to be unidentified, as the identity cannot be established with certainty. We therefore hereby remove H. c. canipennis from the host list of Po. flavala .