Tinamotaecola zyskowskii

Cicchino, Armando C., Valim, Michel P. & González-Acuña, Daniel, 2014, A review of the louse genus Tinamotaecola (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Philopteridae sensu lato), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3835 (3), pp. 349-363 : 357

zyskowskii species-group

Strongly pigmented species, characterized by possessing: a) head with a thick wide marginal carina, with its internal margin rugulose in both sexes; b) male metanotum with 11–13 setae; and c) female subgenital plate with more than 45 marginal and submarginal setae. Two species are included, parasitic on the two species of Cariamidae ( Gruiformes or Cariamiformes, see Fain et al. 2007; Mayr 2002; Cracraft et al. 2004). One species ( T. wardi ) has been recorded from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, the other ( T. zyskowskii ) from Argentina and Paraguay ( Fig. 20 ).

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FIGURE 20. Geographical ranges of Cariama cristata, Chunga burmeisteri (Cariamidae), Tinamotis spp. and Eudromia spp. (Tinamiformes), showing sites where species of Tinamotaecola were collected from them.