merited. Prosternum with 2 median setae; prosternal plate without 

 deeply serrated posterior (cf. Holomenopon) . Legs normal; hind femora 

 with a few setae on the venter, not sufficiently numerous to form a 

 brush; mid and hind tibiae with 3 setae, 2 or 3 spine-like on ventral 

 apex. Abdomen elongate oval, with the tergal, sternal and paratergal 

 plates well developed. Male genitalia with the basal plate short, 

 narrow in front and gradually broadening towards the apex where it is 

 expanded; parameres present. 



Austromenopon aegialitidis (Durrant) , 1906 



Menopon aegialitidis Durrant, 1906. Ohio Nat., 6: 529, fig. Ic. 

 Type host: Charadrius voaiferus Linnaeus — Killdeer. 

 Other New England hosts: 

 Charadrius semipatmatus Bonaparte — Seraipalmated Plover. 

 Charadrius melodus Ord — Piping Plover. 



Described from a female collected at Fort Collins, Colorado. 



Measurements : 



Head Length .29 



Head Width .48 



Thorax Width .47 



Total Length 1.30 



Peters (1928) and Geist (1931) have reported this species from 

 Ohio and Peters (1936) has reported it from Alabama, Louisiana, New 

 Hampshire, South Carolina and Virginia. Emerson (1940) reports it from 

 Oklahoma. 



Austromenopon alpinum Timmermann, 1954c 



Austromenopon alpinum Timmermann, 1954c. Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 5: 



202, fig. 8. 

 Type host: Erolia alpina (Linnaeus) — Dunlin. 



Timmermann (1954c) described this species from a o' calling it a 

 small colorless species with the measurements: Head width 0.40, Head 

 length 0.23, and Total length 1.17. Clay (1959) includes this species 

 in the lutesoens group which includes A. lutesoens (Burmeister) from 

 Phitomaohus pugnax, A. alpinum Timmermann from Calidris alpina, and the 

 populations from Croaethia alba, Arenaria and Tringa. She states that, 

 "Except for lutesoens, too little material of this group has been seen 

 to make a decision on the status of these populations." 



Austromenopon atrofulvum (Piaget, 1880) 



Menopon atrofulvum Piaget, 1880. Les Pediculines: 483, pi. 39, 



fig. 2. 

 Menopon stemophilum Ferris, 1932. Bull. Bishop Mus . , 98: 59, 



fig. 12. 

 Menopon fusco fas datum minor Piaget, 1937 (nee 1880). In Thompson, 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (10), 20: 24. 

 Actornithophilus leucopleurus Tuleshkov, 1959. Compt. Acad. 



Bulgare Sci. 12: 557, fig. 1. 



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