Eidmanniella nancyae Ryan & Price, 1969

Nasser, Mohamed Gamal El-Den, Al-Ahmed, Azzam, Ansari, Mohammad Javed & Shobrak, Mohammed Y., 2015, Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) infesting breeding Suliformes (Aves: Aequornithes) of the Arabian Peninsula, African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 709-709 : 712-713

Eidmanniella nancyae Ryan & Price, 1969

Fig. 2b Eidmanniella nancyae Ryan & Price, 1969: 821 .

Description:

Measurements: Female (n= 2): HL: 0.42–0.43; HW: 0.73–0.75; HI: 0.58–0.59; TL: 0.6; AL: 1.91–1.93; Total L: 2.93–2.97.

Head semilunar, wider than long with clear preocular slit; hypopharyngeal sclerite weakly developed; third and fourth antennal segments large without constricted base, third antennal segment with two small leaf-like setae; temple completely rounded forming small connection at occiput with prothorax, occiput with two separated black spots; prothorax with characteristic sharp median spine; legs long, nearly equal in length, concolorous, third femur with sparse ventral setal brush. Abdomen elongated, with highly chitinised spiracles, segments III–V with prominent lateral ventral brUsh last plate on tergum with a row of small setae; male genitalia highly chitinised.

Material examined: Ex Phalacrocorax nigrogularis , 9♀ Karan Island , SaUdi Arabia, 17.vi.2012 .

Known hosts

Phalacrocorax nigrogularis Ogilvie-Grant & Forbes , Socotra cormorant.

Local host

Phalacrocorax nigrogularis , Socotra cormorant.

Figures

Fig. 2. (a) Female Eidmanniella albescens (Piaget); (b) female Eidmanniella nancyae Ryan & Price.