Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787 )

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 : 12-13

Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787)

Pediculus vagelli J.C. Fabricius, 1787: 369 .

Ancistrona procellariae Westwood, 1874: 197 , pl. 37: fig. 4.

Ancistrona gigas Piaget, 1883: 152 , pl. 9: fig. 1.

Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787) ; Harrison 1916: 63.

Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius) ; Thompson 1940a: 640.

Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 36.

Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787) ; KÉler 1952: 209, figs 4–5.

Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787) ; Timmermann 1965: 177, figs 114, 122.

Ancistrona procellariae ; Clay & Moreby 1967: 177, fig. 52.

Ancistrona vagelli ; Sepúlveda et al. 1997: 372.

Ancistrona vagelli (J.C. Fabricius, 1787) ; Palma 2017: 38, figs 14–15.

Neotype ♂ in NHML (see Clay & Hopkins 1960: 6).

Type host: Fulmarus glacialis glacialis ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Chilean hosts: Fulmarus glacialoides (A. Smith, 1840) ; Pterodroma neglecta juana Mathews, 1936 ; Pterodroma externa (Salvin, 1875) ; Puffinus creatopus Coues, 1864 ; Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789) .

Other hosts: Thalassoica antarctica (Gmelin, 1789) ; Daption capense capense ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; Daption capense australe Mathews, 1913 ; Lugensa brevirostris (Lesson, 1833) ; Pterodroma macroptera gouldi (Hutton, 1869) ; Pterodroma lessonii (Garnot, 1826) ; Pterodroma magentae (Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869) ; Pterodroma inexpectata (J.R. Forster, 1844) ; Pterodroma cervicalis (Salvin, 1891) ; Pterodroma nigripennis (Rothschild, 1893) ; Pterodroma cookii (G.R. Gray, 1843) ; Pterodroma longirostris (Stejneger, 1888) ; Halobaena caerulea (Gmelin, 1789) ; Pachyptila vittata (G. Forster, 1777) ; Pachyptila salvini salvini (Mathews, 1912) ; Pachyptila desolata (Gmelin, 1789) ; Pachyptila belcheri (Mathews, 1912) ; Pachyptila turtur (Kuhl, 1820) ; Pachyptila crassirostris crassirostris (Mathews, 1912) ; Pachyptila crassirostris pyramidalis Fleming, 1939 ; Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 ; Procellaria westlandica Falla, 1946 ; Procellaria parkinsoni G.R. Gray, 1862 ; Procellaria cinerea Gmelin, 1789 ; Puffinus pacificus pacificus (Gmelin, 1789) ; Puffinus bulleri Salvin, 1888 ; Puffinus carneipes Gould, 1844 ; Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck, 1835) ; Puffinus huttoni Mathews, 1912 ; Puffinus assimilis kermadecensis Murphy, 1927 ; Puffinus assimilis haurakiensis Fleming & Serventy, 1943 ; Pelagodroma albiclunis Murphy & Irving, 1951 . Pterodroma arminjoniana (Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869) ; Pterodroma hypoleuca (Salvin, 1888) ; Pterodroma incerta (Schlegel, 1863) ; Pterodroma mollis (Gould, 1844) ; Pterodroma phaeopygia (Salvin, 1876) ; Puffinus gravis (O’Reilly, 1818) ; Puffinus opisthomelas Coues, 1864 ; Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764); Pseudobulweria rostrata (Peale, 1848) ; Pelagodroma marina (Latham, 1790) ; Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820) .

Chilean localities: Valparaíso: Region V; Isla Alejandro Selkirk (= Masafuera) Juan Fernández Islands: Region V; Puerto Montt: Region X.

Geographic distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Chilean references: Thompson (1940a); KÉler (1952); Sepúlveda et al. (1997); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Symmons (1952: 371, figs 12–13); Clay & Hopkins (1960: 4, figs 1–6); Timmermann (1965); Clay & Moreby (1967); Palma (1996: 114); Price et al. (2003: 89); Palma (2010: 407); Palma (2017).

Remarks: Ancistrona vagelli is a monotypic louse species, recorded from a great number of petrels but not abundant on any particular bird species. Host records of A. vagelli from Fulmarus glacialoides and Puffinus griseus and locality records from Valparaíso and Puerto Montt are all new to Chile and based on material held at MONZ.

Genus Austromenopon Bedford, 1939

Austromenopon Bedford, 1939 . Onderstepoort Jour. Vet. Sci. Animal Ind. 12 (1), 122. Type species: Menopon crocatum Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1866 = Austromenopon crocatum (Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1866) (by original designation).

Procellariphaga Eichler, 1949a . Boll. Soc. Entomol. Italiana 79, 12. Type species: Procellariphaga ossifragae Eichler, 1949a = Austromenopon ossifragae (Eichler, 1949) (by original designation).