Eidmanniella albescens ( Piaget, 1880 )

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 26

Eidmanniella albescens ( Piaget, 1880)

Menopon albescens Piaget, 1880: 491 , pl. 41: fig. 4.

Menopon singularis Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902: 485 , pl. 31: fig. 1.

Eidmanniella albescens ( Piaget, 1880) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 129.

Eidmanniella sula Tendeiro, 1958: 443 , figs 1–2, photos 1–4.

Eidmanniella albescens ( Piaget, 1880) ; Ryan & Price 1969: 822, figs 5, 13, 26, 29.

Eidmanniella albescens ( Piaget, 1880) ; Palma 2017: 60.

Lectotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay 1949a: 816).

Type host: “ Morus serratus (G.R. Gray, 1843) ”, in error (see Ryan & Price 1969: 822).

Chilean host: Sula variegata (Tschudi, 1843) .

Other hosts: Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766) ; Sula granti Rothschild, 1902 ; Sula nebouxii excisa Todd, 1948 ; Sula leucogaster plotus (J.R. Forster, 1844) ; Sula dactylatra tasmani van Tets , et al. 1988; Papasula abbotti (Ridgway, 1893) .

Chilean locality: Antofagasta: Region II .

Geographic distribution: Tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Chilean references: Ryan & Price (1969: 823); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Tendeiro (1958); Palma (1996: 124); Price et al. (2003: 107); Palma (2010: 407); Palma & Peck (2013: 19); Rivera-Parra et al. (2014: 571); Rivera-Parra et al. (2015: 3267); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Antofagasta is a new locality record for Eidmanniella albescens in Chile, based on a sample from Sula variegata held in NHML ( Shchedrina et al. 2017).