Eidmanniella albescens ( Piaget, 1880 )

Nasser, Mohamed Gamal El-Den, Al-Ahmed, Azzam, Ansari, Mohammad Javed & Shobrak, Mohammed Y., 2015, Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) infesting breeding Suliformes (Aves: Aequornithes) of the Arabian Peninsula, African Invertebrates 56 (3), pp. 709-709 : 711-712

Eidmanniella albescens ( Piaget, 1880)

Fig. 2a

Menopon albescens Piaget, 1880: 491 .

Menopon singulans Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902: 485 .

Eidmanniella sula Tendeiro, 1958: 443 .

Description:

Measurements: Female (n =2): HL: 0.44–0.46; HW: 0.84–0.87; HI: 0.52–0.54; TL: 0.7; AL: 1.66–1.69; Total L: 2.8–2.9.

Head semilunar, wider than long with faint preocular slit; hypopharyngeal sclerite well developed; antennae with characteristic club-shaped third and fourth segments with a constricted base attached in part with second antennal segment; temple expanded outward with four long setae; gula oblong with two small setae. Thorax with characteristic pointed median process on the prothorax; margin of prothorax with numerous short setae (14–18); legs long, nearly eqUal in length, concoloroUs, and third femUr with sparse ventral setal brush. Abdomen elongated oval in shape, ventral brush not clearly apparent on segments III–V, last tergite with characteristic short blUnt spiniform setae across the posterior margin, which separates this species from other Eidmanniella spp. ; male genitalia weakly chitinised.

Material examined: Ex Sula leucogaster 6♀ JaZan ToUrism Marina , SaUdi Arabia, 23.iv.2013 . Ex Sula dactylatra Lesson 1♀ Al-Hallaniyah Island, Oman 15.ix.2014 .

Known hosts

Morus serrator Gray, Australasian gannet (type host); Papasula abbotti (Ridgway) , Abbott’s booby; Sula nebouxii Milne-Edwards , Blue-footed booby; Sula variegata (Tschudi) , Peruvian booby; Sula dactylatra Lesson, Masked booby; Sula sula (L), Red-footed booby; Sula leucogaster (Boddaert) , Brown booby ( Suliformes : Sulidae ). Local hosts

Sula dactylatra, Masked booby; Sula leucogaster, Brown booby.

Figures

Fig. 2. (a) Female Eidmanniella albescens (Piaget); (b) female Eidmanniella nancyae Ryan & Price.