Gyropus martini iheringi 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 : 8-9

Gyropus martini iheringi Werneck, 1948

Gyropus martini iheringi Werneck 1948: 64 , fig. 53 (detail of the male genital sclerite, dorsal view), fig. 54 (detail of the male genital sclerite, ventral view). Type locality: Brazil, Espírito Santo, Santa Teresa, Floresta da Caixa d’água. Type host: Proechimys iheringi (= Trinomys iheringi ). Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female, four male, and four female paratypes desposited at FIOC. There are paratypes of both sexes in alcohol, vial 259 in support 26, at FIOC.

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).

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

Distribution. BRAZIL (Espírito Santo).

Hosts. Trinomys iheringi +, Trinomys gratiosus (Moojen) (Echimyidae) .

Remarks. The host used in the original description was identified by J. Moojen as Proechimys iheringi in 1945, that is, three years before his monograph about the Brazilian spiny rats of the genus Proechimys s. l. ( Moojen 1948). In this monograph, J. Moojen included in Proechimys (Trinomys) iheringi five subspecies: P. i. iheringi Thomas, P. i. denigratus Moojen, P. i. paratus Moojen , P. i. gratiosus , and P. i. bonafidei Moojen. Probably the material identified for Werneck was not classified to subspecies, after Moojen's classification, and species identification was used by Werneck (1948: 64) to describe G. m. iheringi : Proechimys iheringi (spp.). It is now known that the species which occurs in the type locality, Floresta da Caixa d’água in Santa Teresa (Espírito Santo state), is Trinomys gratiosus ( Iack-Ximenes 2005) , namely, Proechimys iheringi gratiosus after Moojen (1948) and Lara and Patton (2000). Therefore, the correct name for the type host of G. m. iheringi is Trinomys gratiosus instead of T. iheringi .