Aquanirmus major Cicchino & González-Acuña, 2009

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 : 51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5077.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5766702
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scientific name	Aquanirmus major Cicchino & González-Acuña, 2009
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Aquanirmus View in CoL sp. n.: Cicchino & Castro 1998b: 121.

Aquanirmus major Cicchino & González-Acuña, 2009a: 385 , figs 1–6, 8, 10, 12.

Aquanirmus major Cicchino & González-Acuña, 2009 ; Dantas-Torres & Vieira 2011: 148.

Holotype ♂ in MDLP.

Type host: Podiceps major (Boddaert, 1783) .

Chilean host: Podiceps major (Boddaert, 1783) .

Other hosts: None.

Chilean localities: Lago Rapel: Region VI; Bahía Inútil (Tierra del Fuego): Region XII; Valdivia: Region XIV.

Geographic distribution: South America.

Chilean reference: Cicchino & González-Acuña (2009a).

Other significant references: Cicchino & Castro (1998b); Dantas-Torres & Vieira (2011).

Remarks: According to a phylogenetic analysis by Ksepka et al. (2013: figs 8–9), Aquanirmus major belongs to the emersoni species-group ( Edwards 1965: 928) of four large species with hosts grouped in a single clade— except for species of Podilymbus .