Brueelia glizi Balat , 1955

Gustafsson, Daniel R., Oslejskova, Lucie, Najer, Tomas, Sychra, Oldrich & Zou, Fasheng, 2019, Redescriptions of thirteen species of chewing lice in the Brueelia - complex (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae), with one new synonymy and a neotype designation for Nirmus lais Giebel, 1874, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 66 (1), pp. 17-39 : 20-22

Brueelia glizi Balat, 1955 Figs 20-21 , 22-26

Brueelia glizi Balát, 1955: 509.

Type host.

Fringilla montifringilla Linnaeus, 1758, brambling ( Fringillidae ).

Type locality.

Hodonín, Czechia.

Description.

Both sexes. Head flat dome-shaped (Fig. 22 ), lateral margins of preantennal area slightly convex, frons broadly flattened to slightly concave. Marginal carina narrow, deeply displaced at osculum, median margin undulating. Ventral anterior plate small, shield-shaped. Head chaetotaxy and pigmentation patterns as in Figure 22 . Preantennal nodi not bulging. Preocular nodi larger than postocular nodi. Marginal temporal carina moderate in width, median margin undulating. Gular plate slender, lanceolate. Thoracic and abdominal segments and pigmentation patterns as in Figures 20 , 21 .

Male. Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Figure 20 . Male genitalia asymmetrical in single examined male, and here illustrated as seen in lectotype, in dorso-lateral view. Basal apodeme slender, with concave lateral margins (Fig. 23 ). Proximal mesosome distorted in syntype, but seemingly gently rounded (Fig. 24 ). Mesosomal lobes broad, convergent distally; rugose area not visible, likely limited. Gonopore wider than long. Parameres partially everted in single syntype male, and true shape may be slightly different than what is illustrated (Fig. 25 ); pst1-2 not visible. Measurements (n = 1): TL = 1.46; HL = 0.33; HW = 0.25; PRW = 0.17; PTW = 0.26; AW = 0.36.

Female. Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Figure 21 . Subgenital plate funnel-shaped, with broad connection to cross-piece (Fig. 26 ). Vulval margin gently rounded, with 4 or 5 short, slender vms and 3 or 4 short, thorn-like vss on each side; 4 short, slender vos on each side of subgenital plate; distal 1 vos median to vss. Measurements (n = 7): TL = 1.70-1.90; HL = 0.38-0.39; HW = 0.29-0.31; PRW = 0.20-0.22; PTW = 0.30-0.31; AW = 0.43-0.48.

Type material.

Lectotype 1♂, Hodonín, Czechia, 10 Feb. 1952, F. Balát, 672a (MMBC). Paralectotype. 1♀, same data as lectotype, 672a (MMBC).

Non-type material. 6♀, same data as lectotype, F. Balát, 647, 672b-c (MMBC). 1♀, same data as lectotype, Brit. Mus. 1955-662 (NHML). 1♂, 1♀, same data as lectotype, no. 734 (MNHW).

Remarks.

Balát (1955) designated one male and one female on slide 672 as types, but did not explicitly designate either of these as holotype; these therefore constitute the syntype series. The specimens are designated as “types” on the handwritten label. Another nine females and two nymphs were mentioned from the same host specimen, and one female from a different host specimen. Presently, four slides with one male, seven females and one nymph are present at the MMBC; the remaining specimens must be regarded as lost. To settle the identity of B. glizi , we hereby designate the male on slide 672a as the lectotype, and the female on the same slide as paralectotype. Specimens deposited at the NHML and MNHW are labeled “paratypes”, but these are not mentioned as paratypes in the original description, and thus do not have type status.

Additional material is necessary to describe the male genitalia accurately.

Figures

Figures 20, 21. Brueelia glizi Balat, 1955, ex Fringilla montifringilla Linnaeus, 1758 20 Male habitus, dorsal and ventral views 21 Female habitus, dorsal and ventral views.

Figures 22 - 26. Brueelia glizi Balat, 1955, ex Fringilla montifringilla Linnaeus, 1758 22 Male head, dorsal and ventral views 23 Male genitalia, dorsal view, except mesosome which is distorted in specimen and here illustrated in dorso-lateral view 24 Male mesosome, ventro-lateral view 25 Male paramere, dorsal view 26 Female subgenital plate and vulval margin, ventral view.