Gyropus martini martini ( Werneck, 1934b )

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 : 9

Gyropus martini martini ( Werneck, 1934b)

Tetragyropus martini Werneck 1934b: 277 , fig. 3 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 4 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 5 (head, dorso-ventral view), fig. 6 (sternal plate), fig. 7 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 8 (male genitalia, ventral view), fig. 9 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 10 (nymph, dorsoventral view. Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Corcovado. Type host: Proechimys albispinus (= Trinomys albispinus ) (see remarks below). Typology: Holotype female, ‘allotype’ male, two male, three female, and one nymphal paratypes held by FIOC. There are paratypes of both sexes in alcohol, vial 74 in support 8, at FIOC. One male and one female paratype were donated to BMNH.

Gyropus martini, Werneck 1936a: 431 (citation). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 161 (checklist).

Gyropus martini martini, Werneck 1948: 63 (new status, subspecies), fig. 49 (male gentitalia, dorsal view), fig. 50 (male genitalia, ventral view), fig. 51 (detail of the endomeres), fig. 52 (detail of the mesomeral plate). Emerson and Price 1981: 43 (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).

Distribution. BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro).

Hosts. + Trinomys albispinus , T. dimidiatus (Günther) (Echimyidae) .

Remarks. The host specimen used by Werneck (1934b) in his description was identified by R.W. Haymann as Proechimys albispinus ; later, the same host skin was identified as Proechimys dimidiatus (= T. dimidiatus ) by J. Moojen ( Werneck 1948: 63). There are in Werneck’s collection six samples from differentes places of Rio de Janeiro state, all identified by J. Moojen as Proechimys dimidiatus . We believe that the name of the type host was result of misidentification, thus the only host species and the type host of G. m. martini is T. dimidiatus .