Described from a single male specimen with measurements: 



Head Length .34 



Head Width .40 



Thorax Width .34 



Abdomen Length .78 



Abdomen Width .42 



Total Length 1.40 



The original description from a snipe collected at Monterrey, 

 California, appears to be the only published record of this species. 



Aatomithophilus totani (Schrank, 1803) 



Pediculus totani Schrank, 1803. Fauna Boica: 191. 

 Colpoaephalion affine Nitzsch, 1874. In Giebel, Insecta Epizoa: 



276. 

 Type host: Totanus totanus (Linnaeus) — Redshank. 

 New England host: 

 Totanus flavipes (Gmelin) — Lesser Yellowlegs. 



This species is recognized by the absence of long anterior setae 

 on the metanotum, by the prosternal plate surrounding the prosternal 

 setae, and by the presence of anterior dorsal setae on the last segment 

 of the abdomen in the male. In the female at least 2 or more tergites 

 have 7 or more central setae and tergites II-VIII have a row of anterior 

 setae. 



Measurements: cf 9 



Head Length .36 .37 



Head Width .50 .52 



Prothorax Width .35 .36 



Metathorax Width .45 .51 



Abdomen Length 1.17 1.49 



Abdomen Width .55 .70 



Total Length 1.93 2.69 



Aatomithophilus umbrinus (Burmeister, 1838) 



CoZpocephalwn umbrinus Burmeister, 1838. Handb . Ent . , 2: 438. 

 Colpooephalum trilobaturu Giebel, 1874. Insecta Epizoa: 275. 

 Colpoaephalum umbrinum Piaget, 1880 (nee Burmeister, 1838). Les 



Pediculines : 556, pi. 46, fig. 6. 

 Colpoaephalum spinuloswn minor Kellogg and Chapman, 1899 (nea 



Piaget, 1880). Dec. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci., 6: 112, pi. 7, fig. S 

 Colpoaephalum morsitans Kellogg and Mann, 1912. Ent. News, 23: 



15, fig. 3. 

 Colpoaephalum umbrosum Harrison, 1916. Parasitology, 9: 56, {nn 



for C. umbrinum Piaget, 1880). 

 Aatomithophilus albus, Emerson, 1948a. Ent. News, 59: 178, figs. 



1-2 {nn for C. spinulosum minor Kellogg and Chapman, 1899). 

 Aatomithophilus hrabei Balat, 1953. Zool. Ent. Listy, 2: 98 and 



104, fig. 2. 

 Aatomithophilus hirsutus Carriker, 1954. Florida Ent., 37: 139, 



fig. 1. 



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