Degeeriella rufa rufa ( Burmeister, 1838 )

Gonza ́ Lez-Acun, Daniel A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2021, An annotated catalogue of bird lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Chile, Zootaxa 5077 (1), pp. 1-151 : 65-66

Degeeriella rufa rufa ( Burmeister, 1838)

Nirmus rufus Burmeister, 1838: 430 .

Degeeriella rufa Nitzsch [in Burmeister], 1838 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 122.

Degeeriella rufa ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 113.

Degeeriella rufa rufa ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Clay 1958a: 180, figs 5, 10, 18–22, 38, 55, 75, 95, 104, 107, 111, 120, 129, 139–164; pl. 6: fig. 3; pl. 8: fig. 7.

Degeeriella rufa ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Price et al. 2003: 175.

Degeeriella rufa ( Burmeister, 1838) ; González-Acuña et al. 2008a: 283.

Degeeriella rufa ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Moreno & González-Acuña 2015: 95.

Degeeriella rufa ( Burmeister, 1838) ; González-Acuña & Moreno 2018: 262.

Degeeriella rufa rufa ( Burmeister, 1838) ; Palma 2017: 109.

Status, sex and repository of types unknown, presumed lost (see Palma 2017: 109).

Type host: Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Chilean hosts: Falco femoralis Temminck, 1822 ; Falco peregrinus Tunstall, 1771 .

Other hosts: Polihierax insignis Walden, 1872 and twenty-two species of Falco (see Price et al. 2003: 175).

Chilean localities: Not given.

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean references: González-Acuña et al. (2008a); Moreno & González-Acuña (2015); González-Acuña & Moreno (2018).

Other significant references: Clay (1958a); Palma (1996: 174); Price et al. (2003); Martín-Mateo (2009: 87, fig. 20C); Palma (2010: 408); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Degeeriella rufa is a morphologically variable species ( Clay 1958a: 181). Contrary to Price et al. (2003: 175), we follow Clay (1958a) and regard some subspecies of Degeeriella rufa as valid taxa (see below).