Gyropus limai Werneck, 1948

Valim, Michel P. & Linardi, Pedro Marcos, 2008, A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae), Zootaxa 1899, pp. 1-24 : 7

Gyropus limai Werneck, 1948

Gyropus limai Werneck 1948: 65 , fig. 57 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 58 (male habitus, dorsoventral view), fig. 59 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 60 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 61 (male genitalia, ventral view), fig. 62 (detail of the endomeres), fig. 63 (detail of the mesomeral plate), fig. 64 (detail of the male genital sclerite, dorsal view), fig. 65 (detail of the male genital sclerite, ventral view). Type locality: Brazil, Bahia, Ilhéus, Fortuna. Type host: Proechimys setosus (= Trinomys setosus (Desmarest)) . Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female, four male, one female and two nymphal paratypes held by FIOC.

Hopkins and Clay 1952: 161 (checklist). Emerson and Price 1981: 44 (host-parasite checklist). Cicchino and Castro 1990: 322 (checklist of Gyropus species on Echimyidae ). Cardoso-de-Almeida et al. 2003: 235 (list of type material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz). Price et al. 2003: 77 (checklist).

Distribution. BRAZIL (Bahia, Espírito Santo).

Host. Trinomys setosus (Echimyidae) .