Machaerilaemus laticorpus ( Carriker, 1903 )

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 : 31-32

Machaerilaemus laticorpus ( Carriker, 1903)

Menopon laticorpus Carriker, 1903: 190 , pl. 7: fig. 5.

Machaerilaemus laticorpus Carriker, 1903 [sic]; Harrison 1916: 60.

Machaerilaemus laticorpus ( Carriker, 1903) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 203.

Machaerilaemus laticorpus ( Carriker, 1903) ; Price et al. 2002: 69, figs 12–14.

Machaerilaemus laticorpus ( Carriker, 1903) ; Price et al. 2003: 116.

Machaerilaemus laticorpus ; Mena et al. 2020: 2.

Holotype ♀ in USNM (see Emerson 1967: 102).

Type host: Thamnophilus doliatus (Linnaeus, 1764) .

Chilean hosts: Asthenes pyrrholeuca (Vieillot, 1817) ; Curaeus curaeus (Molina, 1782) .

Other hosts: Twenty species of the genera: Agelaius , Arremonops , Cercomacra , Chloebia , Chondestes , Emberiza , Eucometis , Euphagus , Icterus , Loxigilla , Myrmotherula , Thamnophilus , Oryzoborus , Ochthoeca , Phylloscartes , Ramphocelus , Thraupis and Zonotrichia (see Price et al. 2003: 116).

Chilean localities: Not given.

Geographic distribution: Asia; North, Central and South America.

Chilean references: Price et al. (2002: 70); Mena et al. (2020).

Other significant reference: Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: Machaerilaemus laticorpus is likely more widely distributed in Chile than indicated by the records in Price et al. (2002).