Gyropus travassosi Werneck, 1948

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 : 18

Gyropus travassosi Werneck, 1948

Gyropus travassosi Werneck 1948: 58 , fig. 36 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 37 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 38 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 39 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 40 (articulation of endomera and basal plate, dorsal view), fig. 41 (detail of the genital sclerite, dorsal view), fig. 42 (detail of the mesomeral plate). Type locality: Brazil, Bahia, Ilhéus, Fazenda Almada. Type host: Isothrix pictus (= Callistomys pictus (Pictet)) . Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female, two female, and four male paratypes held by FIOC. There are paratypes of both sexes in alcohol, vial 257 in support 26, at FIOC. Two pairs of paratypes were donated to BMNH (former GHE Hopkins Collection).

Hopkins and Clay 1952: 161 (checklist). 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).

Distribution. BRAZIL (Bahia).

Host. Callistomys pictus (Echimyidae) .