Amyrsidea (Argimenopon) minuta Emerson, 1961

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 : 12

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scientific name

Amyrsidea (Argimenopon) minuta Emerson, 1961
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Amyrsidea (Argimenopon) minuta Emerson, 1961

Amyrsidea minuta Emerson, 1961: 117 , figs 1–3.

Amyrsidea (Argimenopon) minuta Emerson, 1961 ; Scharf & Price 1983: 447, figs 18, 20.

Amyrsidea minuta ; González-Acuña et al. 2009: 182.

Amyrsidea (Argimenopon) minuta Emerson, 1961 ; Palma 2017: 37.

Holotype ♂ in SMDV (see Palma 2017: 37).

Type host: Pavo cristatus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Chilean host: Pavo cristatus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Other host: Pavo muticus Linnaeus, 1766 .

Chilean locality: Chillán: Region XVI.

Geographic distribution: Australasia; Eurasia; North America.

Chilean reference: González-Acuña et al. (2009).

Other significant references: Scharf & Price (1983); Palma (1996: 113); Price et al. (2003: 87); Palma (2010: 407); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Amyrsidea (Argimenopon) minuta is native to Asia and was introduced by human agency to Chile and other countries with peafowl.

Genus Ancistrona Westwood, 1874

Ancistrona Westwood, 1874 . Thesaurus Entomol. Oxon. 1874 , 197. Type species: Ancistrona procellariae Westwood, 1874 = Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787) (by monotypy).

Fabricius, J. C. (1787) Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus. Vol. 2. Impensis Christ. gottl. Proft, Hafniae, 382 pp.

Gonzalez-Acuna, D., Lara, J. & Cicchino, A. (2009) Nuevos registros de piojos (Insecta: Phthiraptera) en aves domesticas y ornamentales en Chile. Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria, 41 (2), 181 - 188. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / S 0301 - 732 X 2009000200013

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth Edition. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, iv + 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542

Palma, R. L. (1996) Laemobothriidae; Menoponidae; Ricinidae; Philopteridae. In: Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Vol. 26. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 106 - 230.

Palma, R. L. (2010) Order Phthiraptera: Lice. In: Gordon, D. P. (Ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Kingdom Animalia - Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, pp. 294 - 296 + 407 - 409.

Palma, R. L. (2017) Phthiraptera (Insecta). A catalogue of parasitic lice from New Zealand. Fauna of New Zealand, 76, 1 - 400.

Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A. & Palma, R. L. (2003) World checklist of chewing lice with host associations and keys to families and genera. In: Price, R. D., Hellenthal, R. A., Palma, R. L., Johnson, K. P. & Clayton, D. H. (Eds.), The chewing lice: world checklist and biological overview. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, pp. 1 - 448.

Scharf, W. C. & Price, R. D. (1983) Review of the Amyrsidea in the subgenus Argimenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 76 (3), 441 - 451. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 76.3.441

Westwood, J. O. (1874) Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 205 pp., 40 pls.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Menoponidae

Genus

Amyrsidea