Harrisoniella copei Timmermann, 1969

Palma, Ricardo L. & Peck, Stewart B., 2013, <strong> An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands </ strong>, Zootaxa 3627 (1), pp. 1-87 : 67

Harrisoniella copei Timmermann, 1969

Palma & Pilgrim (1984: 160) listed as “Stragglers or contaminants” two females of Harrisoniella copei Timmermann, 1969b from Phoebastria irrorata [as Diomedea irrorata ], Galápagos Islands, without a date, and deposited in the Meinertzhagen Collection held at the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom. Palma (1994a: 66), while discussing the origin of the types of Docophoroides irroratae Timmermann, 1962 , concluded that the two females of H. copei labelled as from “Galápagos Is” had been “accidentally transferred from a specimen of Diomedea nigripes to one of Diomedea irrorata by human agency”. Therefore, we delete Harrisoniella copei from the louse fauna of the Galápagos Islands.