Quadraceps sellatus sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838 )

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 : 104-105

Quadraceps sellatus sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838)

Nirmus sellatus Burmeister, 1838 a: 428 .

Degeeriella sellata Burmeister, 1838 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 122.

Quadraceps sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Hopkins 1949b: 52, pl. 3: figs 11–12.

Koeniginirmus sellatus sellatus Burmeister, 1838 [sic]; Eichler 1951: 134.

Quadraceps sellatus sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Timmermann 1952a: 80.

Quadraceps sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Timmermann 1957: 71, pl. 7: figs c,d.

Koeniginirmus (Laminonirmus) sellatus sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Złotorzycka 1967: 767.

Quadraceps sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Clay & Moreby 1967: 164, 169, fig. 145.

Quadraceps sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Price et al. 2003: 227.

Quadraceps sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; González-Acuña et al. 2006a: 189.

Quadraceps sellatus sellatus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Palma 2017: 183.

Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Hopkins 1949b: 52).

Type host: Sterna hirundo hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 .

Chilean hosts: Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 ; Sterna hirundinacea Lesson, 1831 .

Other hosts: Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, 1823 ; Sterna bengalensis Lesson, 1831 . Sterna striata Gmelin, 1789 ; Sterna vittata bethunei Buller, 1896 .

Chilean localities: Santo Domingo (Valparaíso): Region V; Magallanes: Region XII.

Geographic distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Chilean references: González-Acuña et al. (2006a); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Hopkins (1949b); Timmermann (1952); Timmermann (1957); Eichler (1951); Złotorzycka (1967); Clay & Moreby (1967); Palma (1996: 214); Price et al. (2003); Palma (2010: 408); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Magallanes is a new locality record for Quadraceps sellatus sellatus in Chile, based on a sample from Sterna hirundinacea held in NHML ( Shchedrina et al. 2017). In agreement with Palma (2017: 183) and contrary to Price et al. (2003: 227), we regard this louse taxon as a subspecies.

Genus Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911

Subgenus Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911

Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911 . Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 36 (2), 324. Type species: Oncophorus attenuatus N. [sic] = Rallicola (Rallicola) ortygometrae ( Schrank, 1781) (by original designation).

Furnaricola Carriker, 1944b . Bol. Ent. Venezol. 3 (2), 83. Type species: Furnaricola acutifrons Carriker, 1944b = Rallicola (Rallicola) acutifrons (Carriker, 1944) (by original designation).