Gyropus elongatus (Castro, Cicchino and Torres-Mura, 1987)

Gyropus parvus elongatus Castro, Cicchino and Torres-Mura 1987: 43, fig. 1 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 2 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 3 (male genitalia, ventral view), fig. 4 (detail of the male genital sclerite), fig. 5 (on side of the female terminalia, ventral view). Type locality: Chile, Malleco. Type host: Aconaemys fuscus (Waterhouse) . Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female, twenty male, eighteen female, and fourteen nymphal paratypes held by MLPA.

Cicchino and Castro 1998b: 99 (synopsis of Argentine species, assumption of geographical ocurrence), 103 (host parasite list of Argentine species), fig. 8 (female habitus, dorsoventral view). Abrahamovich et al. 2006: 45 (list of type material in Museo de La Plata).

Gyropus elongatus, Castro and Cicchino 2002: 295 (new status, species, morphometrics and chaetotaxy data), fig. 2B (male genitalia with detail of the pseudopenis, ventral view). Price et al. 2003: 77 (checklist). Gonzales-Acuña et al. 2005: 56 (prevalence and new host and geographical records).

Distribution. CHILE (Cautín, Colchagua, Malleco, Talca).

Hosts. Aconaemys fuscus, A. sagei (Octodontidae) .