Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 80-81

Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937

Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937: 140 , figs 2a, 3b–c, 4d; pl. 1: fig. 5.

Rhyncothura [sic] heterura Carriker, 1944a: 169 , figs 18c–d.

Rhyncothura [sic] testudo ( Clay, 1937) ; Carriker 1944a: 174.

Heptapsogaster heterurus (Carriker, 1944) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 168.

Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937 ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 171.

Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937 ; Ward 1957: 349.

Rhyncothura [sic] testudo ( Clay, 1937) ; Carriker 1961: 374.

Rhyncothura [sic] testudo heterura Carriker, 1944 : Carriker 1961: 375.

Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937 ; González-Acuña 1997: 108.

Heptapsogaster heterurus (Carriker, 1944) ; Price et al. 2003: 189 (as junior synonym).

Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937 ; Price et al. 2003: 190.

Heptapsogaster testudo Clay, 1937 ; González-Acuña et al. 2003a: 77.

Holotype ♂ in NHML (see Shchedrina et al. 2017).

Type host: Nothura darwinii peruviana (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1906) .

Chilean host: Nothoprocta perdicaria (Kittlitz, 1830) .

Other host: Nothoprocta cinerascens (Burmeister, 1860) .

Chilean localities: Central and northern Chile; Ñuble: Region XVI.

Geographic distribution: Southern South America.

Chilean references: González-Acuña (1997); González-Acuña et al. (2003a); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Carriker (1944); Carriker (1961); Hopkins & Clay (1952); Ward (1957); Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: Several samples of Heptapsogaster testudo labelled as from central and northern Chile are deposited in the NHML ( Shchedrina et al. 2017).

Genus Ibidoecus Cummings, 1916

Ibidoecus Cummings, 1916a . Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1916, 663. Type species: Philopterus plataleae Denny, 1842 = Ibidoecus plataleae ( Denny, 1842) (by original designation).