Brueelia senegala Sychra, 2010

Sychra, Oldŕich, Literák, Ivan, Najer, Tomáš, Čapek, Miroslav, Koubek, Petr & Procházka, Petr, 2010, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from estrildid finches (Aves: Passeriformes: Estrildidae) and louse-flies (Insecta: Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from birds in Senegal, with descriptions of three new species of the genus Brueelia, Zootaxa 2714, pp. 59-68 : 65

publication ID

1175-5326

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5295073

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA2871-DF65-7F13-FF5B-FEEFF6C0BBE5

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scientific name

Brueelia senegala Sychra
status

sp. nov.

Brueelia senegala Sychra , new species

( Figs. 7–11, 16–17)

Type host: Lagonosticta senegala (Linnaeus) : red-billed firefinch

Male (n = 4). Head similar to B. fasciata , but with uninterrupted marginal carina ( Fig. 16). Pronotum with 1 seta on each posterolateral corner; metanotum with 7 setae (3 long, 4 short) on each posterolateral margin. Metathorax with concave lateral sides and rounded apically ( Fig. 8). All abdominal tergites divided centrally. Tergal setae on each side as follows: tergites II–IV, 0; V, 1–2; VI, 2–3; VII, 4–5; VIII, 3–4; IX 5 ( Fig. 7), terminally with 4 setae. Abdominal sterna with a pair of setae. A pair of small oval-shaped plates placed between sternal and pleural plates on sternites III–VII ( Fig. 7). Subgenital plate of characteristic shape ( Fig. 9). Male genitalia as in Fig. 10, basal apodeme with conspicuous concave lateral margin.

Dimensions: PAW, 0.20; PAL, 0.18–0.21; TW, 0.24–0.25; POL, 0.15; HL, 0.33–0.36; PW, 0.17; MW, 0.26–0.27; AWV, 0.34–0.36; TL, 1.50–1.68; GW, 0.065.

Female (n = 4). Similar to male except tergal setae on each side of abdominal segments as follows: II– V, 0; VI –VIII, 1; IX, 4 (2 long, 2 short) ( Fig. 11). Subgenital plate ( Fig. 17) wide, slightly convex posteriorly.

Dimensions: PAW, 0.21–0.23; PAL, 0.20–0.23; TW, 0.26–0.27; POL, 0.15–0.17; HL, 0.35–0.40; PW, 0.18; MW, 0.28–0.31; AWV, 0.38–0.42; TL, 1.81–2.00.

Type material. Male holotype, female allotype, from Lagonosticta senegala , SENEGAL: NP Niokolo Koba, Lengué Kountou (13° 04ʹ N, 13° 01ʹ W), 30 January 2005, Procházka & Koubek leg. Paratypes: 2 males, 2 females, same data as holotype, deposited in the Moravian Museum Brno, Czech Republic ( MZM) (O.Sychra-SE67–SE69); 1 male, 1 female, same data as holotype, deposited in the Natural History Museum, London ( NHML) (O.Sychra-SE70) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Brueelia senegala is morphologically similar to B. fasciata but its triangular head with uninterrupted marginal carina, small oval-shaped plates placed between sternal and pleural plates and a subgenital plate of characteristic shape distinguish B. senegala from all other estrildid Brueelia .

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

PW

Paleontological Collections

MW

Museum Wasmann

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Philopteridae

Genus

Brueelia

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