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Published: 2007-08-13
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Tyranniphilopterus polioptilus new species (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera:  Philopteridae) parasitic on the Masked Gnatcatcher, Polioptila dumicola  (Passeriformes, Polioptilidae) in Argentina

Laboratorio de Artrópodos, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3300,7600 Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Research Career of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET).
Phthiraptera egg morphology oviposition sites distribution

Abstract

Tyranniphilopterus polioptilus sp. nov. is described and illustrated from specimens collected off Polioptila dumicola dumicola (Vieillot, 1816) from two localities in the coastal area NE of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Morphologically the new species is similar to T. titicacae (Eichler & Freund, 1956) and several other undescribed species from the Tyrannidae, differing from all of them by proportions of the head and dorsal anterior plate, most body measurements, number of dorsal and ventral setae in both sexes, and number and arrangements of vulvar setae in females. Descriptions of the male, female, the three nymphal instars and the egg are also included. A list is presented of all known species of Tyranniphilopterus, arranged by host taxa.

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