Craspedorrhynchus platystomus ( Burmeister, 1838 )

Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, Zootaxa 5069 (1), pp. 1-80 : 49

Craspedorrhynchus platystomus ( Burmeister, 1838)

Host: Buteo rufinus (Cretzschmar, 1829) .

Ref.: Straka (1987).

Location: Martin, 17 Feb. 1977 (Straka Coll., AKMM —not present in the collection) .

Note: Straka (1987) recorded data on collections of Craspedorrhynchus platystomus from Buteo buteo and Buteo rufinus , but without mentioning which locality referred to each host species. According to Straka’s notes on relevant slides lice form Buteo rufinus were collected on 17 Feb. 1977 in Martin. No louse with the same location and date from Buteo buteo is in the collection. On the other hand, all six available slides with lice from B. rufinus contain Degeeriela fulva (see below). According to Straka’s notes on these slides, all these lice were identified as “ Picicola sp. ”. Despite it we decide to accept Straka’s record and list C. platystomus from B. rufinus , because lice of these two genera ( Craspedorrhynchus vs. Degeeriela) are too different to be misidentify, and because we cannot completely exclude the possibility that material of this species is only not present in the collection. Although Price et al. (2003) did not list this host-louse association, Straka (1987) reported it from Slovakia, and Dik & Aydenizöz-Ozkayhan (2007) confirmed it in Turkey.