Pseudomenopon dolium (Rudow, 1869)

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 : 40

Pseudomenopon dolium (Rudow, 1869)

Colpocephalum dolium Rudow, 1869a: 393 .

Colpocephalum dolium Rudow, 1869 ; Harrison 1916: 48.

Pseudomenopon dolium (Rudow, 1869) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 302.

Pseudomenopon dolium (Rudow, 1869) ; Price 1974: 77, fig. 26.

Pseudomenopon dolium (Rudow, 1869) ; Price et al. 2003: 135.

Pseudomenopon dolium (Rudow, 1869) ; Cicchino 2011: 104, figs. 16, 17, 20, 21, 35, 44, 48. Pseudomenopon dolium (Rudow, 1869) ; González-Acuña et al. 2017: 379, fig. 1B.

Status, sex and repository of types unknown, presumed lost (see Palma 2017: 28).

Type host: Podiceps cristatus ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Chilean hosts: Podiceps occipitalis Garnot, 1826 ; Rollandia rolland chilensis (Lesson, 1828) .

Other hosts: Aechmophorus occidentalis (Lawrence, 1858) ; Podilymbus podiceps ( Linnaeus, 1758) ; Tachybaptus ruficollis (Pallas, 1764) and four other species of Podiceps (see Price et al. 2003: 135).

Chilean locality: Lenga: Region VIII; Chillán: Region XVI.

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean references: Cicchino (2011: 105); González-Acuña et al. (2017).

Other significant references: Price (1974); Price et al. (2003).

Remarks: González-Acuña et al. (2017: 379) recorded two males and five females of Pseudomenopon dolium from six (6.2%) of 97 grebes searched for lice.