Gyropus persetosus Cicchino and Castro, 1990

Gyropus persetosus Cicchino and Castro 1990: 319, fig. 1a (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 1b (male head, dorsal view), fig. 1c (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 1d (one side of the female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 1e (female ventral subgenital sclerite). Type locality: Brazil, Bahia. Type host: Proechimys albispinus (= Trinomys albispinus (Geoffroy)) . Typology: Holotype male and ‘allotype’ female held by MLPA.

Price and Graham 1997: 12 (citation). Price et al. 2003: 77 (checklist).

Distribution. BRAZIL (Bahia).

Host. Trinomys albispinus (Echimyidae) .

Remarks. Although Cicchino and Castro (1990: 322) stated that the type series of this species is in the collection of MLPA, Abrahamovich et al. (2006) did not refer to it in either their list of Phthiraptera types housed in that institution, or in the list of types not found there.