Menacanthus eurysternus ( 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 : 33

Menacanthus eurysternus ( Burmeister, 1838)

Menopon eurysternum Burmeister, 1838: 439 .

Menacanthus mutabilis Blagoveshtchensky, 1940: 31 , 78, fig. 5.

Menacanthus eurysternum [sic] ( Burmeister, 1838); Hopkins & Clay 1952: 210.

Menacanthus eurysternus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Price 1975: 617, figs 1–9.

Menacanthus eurysternus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Price et al. 2003: 119.

Menacanthus eurysternus Burmeister, 1838 [sic]; González-Acuña et al. 2006c: 214.

Menacanthus eurysternus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Palma 2017: 69.

Menacanthus eurysternus ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Llanos-Soto et al. 2019: 434, fig. 2.

Menacanthus eurysternus Burmeister, 1838 [sic]; Oyarzún-Ruiz et al. 2021: 4, fig. 5.

Status, sex and repository of types unknown, presumed lost (see Palma & Pilgrim 1984: 150; Palma 1996: 133).

Type host: Pica pica pica ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Chilean hosts: Turdus falcklandii magellanicus King, 1831 ; Passer domesticus ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Other hosts: Over 170 species of the order Passeriformes and seven species of the order Piciformes (see Price et al. 2003: 119).

Chilean localities: Region RM; Region X; Chillán: Region XVI; Las Mariposas (Ñuble): Region XVI .

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean references: González-Acuña et al. (2006c), Llanos-Soto et al. (2019); Oyarzún-Ruiz et al. (2021).

Other significant references: Price (1975); Price (1977: 219); Castro & Cicchino (1978: 78); Palma (1996: 133); Martín-Mateo (2002: 108); Price et al. (2003); Martinů et al. (2015: 64); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Among all Phthiraptera , Menacanthus eurysternus is the louse species with the largest number of host species (Price 1975: 620; Price et al. 2003: 119). Sasvári-Schäfer (1966: 211, 216), in a paper titled (English translation): Two new Mallophaga species from the territory of the fauna in Chile, described Menacanthus kevei as a new species from Turdus falcklandii , now a junior synonym of M. eurysternus (see Price 1975: 619). However, the type locality of Menacanthus kevei is in Argentina, as stated by Sasvári-Schäfer (1966: 211, 216) in the same paper.