Actornithophilus gracilis ( 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 : 10

Actornithophilus gracilis ( Piaget, 1880)

Colpocephalum gracile Piaget, 1880: 555 , pl. 46: fig. 5.

Colpocephalum gracile Piaget, 1880 ; Harrison 1916: 49.

Actornithophilus gracilis ( Piaget, 1880) ; Hopkins & Clay, 1952: 21.

Actornithophilus gracilis ( Piaget, 1880) ; Clay 1962: 202, 242.

Actornithophilus gracilis ( Piaget, 1880) ; Price et al. 2003: 83.

Actornithophilus gracilis ( Piaget, 1880) ; González-Acuña et al. 2008b: 38, fig. 2.

Syntypes ♂ N in NHML (see Clay 1951a: 181) .

Type host: “ Platalea alba Scopoli, 1786 ”, in error (see Clay 1962: 242).

Chilean host: Vanellus chilensis chilensis (Molina, 1782) .

Other host: Vanellus vanellus ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Chilean localities: Dalcahue (Chiloé): Region X; Chillán: Region XVI.

Geographic distribution: Eurasia; Central and South America; northern Africa.

Chilean references: González-Acuña et al. (2008b); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Clay (1962); Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: Dalcahue (Chiloé) is a new locality record for Actornithophilus gracilis in Chile, based on specimens from Vanellus chilensis chilensis held in NHML ( Shchedrina et al. 2017).