Austromenopon aegialitidis ( Durrant, 1906 )

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 : 24

Austromenopon aegialitidis ( Durrant, 1906)

Host: Charadrius dubius Scopoli, 1786 .

Ref.: Straka (1987) as Actornithophilus perrarus Blagoveshtchensky, 1948 .

Location: Kláštor pod Znievom, 17 Apr. 1981 (Straka Coll., AKMM) .

Notes: There is single slide with two females of A. aegialitidis labelled as Actornithophilus perrarus in Straka’s collection. Straka (1987) reported these females as A. perrarus from Philomachus pugnax ( Linnaeus, 1758) , but host is given as “kulík riečny = Charadrius dubius on the available slide. It is in accordance with host-louse association, despite louse genus was misidentified, because acording to Emerson (1972: 19) A. perrarus is a junior synonym of Actornithophilus ochraceus ( Nitzsch, 1818) , a parasite that is known from 20 species of plovers of the genera Charadrius and Pluvialis . ( Price et al. 2003: 84). This is the first record of Austromenopon aegialitidis from Slovakia.