Nirmus brasiliensis Giebel, 1874

Bush, Sarah E., 2017, Morphological revision of the hyperdiverse Brueelia - complex (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) with new taxa, checklists and generic key, Zootaxa 4313 (1), pp. 1-443 : 318

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4313.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6034742

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scientific name

Nirmus brasiliensis Giebel, 1874
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Nirmus brasiliensis Giebel, 1874

Type host. Tangara mexicana brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1766) — turquoise tanager.

Remarks. The first mention of this species ( Giebel, 1866: 367) only reads that it is “yellowish, without markings” (our translation). Later, Giebel (1874: 134) provided additional information with enough detail to be considered a formal description. Hence we consider the proper author and date of Nirmus brasiliensis to be Giebel, 1874. Unfortunately, even with the additional information provided by Piaget (1880: 160), the description of this species is not good enough to allow us to place it into any genera of the Brueelia -complex. Only one individual was ever collected ( Giebel, 1866: 367), but it was in the destroyed with the Halle Collection ( Clay & Hopkins 1955). Additional collections from the type host are necessary to determine the taxonomic placement of this enigmatic species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Phthiraptera

Family

Philopteridae

Genus

Nirmus

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