Menacanthus pici ( Denny, 1842 )

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 : 34-35

Menacanthus pici ( Denny, 1842)

Menopon pici Denny, 1842: 200 , 219, pl. 20: fig. 5.

Menacanthus pici ( Denny, 1842) ; Hopkins & Clay 1952: 214.

Menacanthus pitius Carriker, 1967: 11 , Figs 5a–5b.

Menacanthus pici ( Denny, 1842) ; Price & Emerson 1975: 779, figs 1–5.

Menacanthus pici ( Denny, 1842) ; Price et al. 2003: 124.

Menacanthus pici ( Denny, 1842) ; González-Acuña et al. 2014: 115, figs 13–16.

Menacanthus pici ; Beltrán-Saavedra 2015: 39.

Syntypes ♀♀ in NHML (see Thompson 1937: 76) . Paratype ♂ of Menacanthus pitius in NHML (see Shchedrina et al. 2017) .

Type host: Picus viridis Linnaeus, 1758 .

Chilean hosts: Colaptes pitius (Molina, 1782) ; Picoides lignarius (Molina, 1782) .

Other hosts: Twenty-five species of the genera Megalaima , Colaptes , Dryocopus , Melanerpes , Picoides , Picus and Sphyrapicus (see Price et al. 2003: 124).

Chilean localities: Las Chinchillas: Region IV; Valparaíso: Region V; Molina: Region VII ; Cordillera de Chillán: Region XVI .

Geographic distribution: All continents, except Antarctica.

Chilean references: Carriker (1967); Price & Emerson (1975: 781); González-Acuña et al. (2014); Beltrán-Saavedra (2015); this catalogue.

Other significant references: Price et al. (2003); Galloway & Lamb (2016).

Remarks: Cordillera de Chillán is a new locality for Menacanthus pici in Chile, based on specimens from Colaptes pitius held in MONZ. Galloway & Lamb (2016) suggested the possibility that M. pici is a species complex based on molecular evidence.