Gyropus lenti lenti Werneck, 1936

Valim, Michel P. & Linardi, Pedro Marcos, 2008, A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae), Zootaxa 1899, pp. 1-24 : 7

Gyropus lenti lenti Werneck, 1936 b

Gyropus lenti Werneck 1936b: 845 , fig. 1 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 2 (male habitus, dorsoventral view), fig. 3 (female head, dorso-ventral view), fig. 4 (sternal plates), fig. 5 (legs I–III, ventral view), fig. 6 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 7 (male genitalia, ventral view), fig. 8 (male genitalia, dorsal view). Type locality: Brazil, Ceará. Type host: Cercomys laurentius (= Thrichomys a. apereoides (Lund)) . Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female, three male, and one female paratypes held by FIOC. There are paratypes of both sexes in alcohol, vial 235 in support 24, at FIOC.

Werneck 1942: 19 (geographical records), figs. 1 (female head, dorso-ventral view), 5 (detail of the endomeres and mesomeral plate), 11 (female meso-metathorax, dorsal view). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 161 (checklist).

Gyropus lenti lenti Werneck, 1948: 68 (new status, subspecies), fig. 66 (detail of the endomeres). Emerson and Price 1981: 44 (host-parasite checklist). Cicchino and Castro 1990: 322 (checklist of Gyropus species on Echimyidae ). Cardoso-de-Almeida et al. 2003: 235 (list of type material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz). Price et al. 2003: 77 (checklist). Cáceres et al. 2007: 1984 (supposed new host record and prevalence data).

Eogyropus lenti lenti, Eichler 1952: 76 (replacement of genus).

Distribution. BRAZIL (Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco).

Hosts. Thrichomys a. apereoides ; T. a. laurenteus ; T. inermis (Echimyidae) ; + Thylamys macrurus (Didelphidae) .

Remarks. The opossum species cited as a host for G. lenti lenti is presumably the result of contamination during field collection. Although in the published results ( Cáceres et al. 2007: 1984) there is no evidence of contamination (other than low prevalence), an abstract presented by the authors at a Brazilian national congress ( Gazêta et al. 2005) showed that the same louse species also parasitized T. apereoides , which was collected during the same trip. During the same congress a poster presentation by the authors also reported Rhipidomys macrurus (Cricetidae) as a host for G. lenti lenti , another probable case of cross contamination.