Austromenopon affine ( Piaget, 1890 )

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Austromenopon affine ( Piaget, 1890)

Menopon affine Piaget, 1890 a: 248 , pl. 10: fig. 3.

Procellariphaga affinis ( Piaget, 1890) ; Eichler 1949b: 346.

Procellariphaga affinis ( Piaget, 1890) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 298.

Austromenopon affine ( Piaget, 1890) ; Timmermann 1965: 166.

Austromenopon affine ( Piaget, 1890) ; Clay & Moreby 1967: 159, 168, figs 72, 74.

Austromenopon affine ( Piaget, 1890) ; Price & Clay 1972: 488, figs 1–9.

Austromenopon affine ( Piaget, 1890) ; Palma 2017: 42.

Lectotype in NHML (see Clay 1949a: 816).

Type host: Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 .

Chilean host: Diomedea epomophora Lesson, 1825 .

Other hosts: Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 ; Diomedea antipodensis antipodensis Robertson & Warham, 1992 ;

Diomedea sanfordi Murphy, 1917 . Chilean localities: Not given. Geographic distribution: Southern Hemisphere. Chilean reference: Price & Clay (1972). Other significant references: Timmermann (1965); Clay & Moreby (1967); Palma (1996: 114); Price et al. (2003:

90); Price & Clay (1972); Palma (2010: 407); Palma (2017). Remarks: Unlike the smaller albatrosses of the genus Thalassarche , which are parasitised by two species of

Austromenopon ( Palma 2017: 250) , the larger albatross of the genus Diomedea are hosts to only one:

Austromenopon affine .