Specimens Host 



Locality 



Date 



Collector 



1 slide Asia flammeus Middletown, Conn. XI-15-1925 O.L.Austin, Jr. 



(USNM) 



CoZpocephalim flavescens (deHaan, 1829) 



Liothewn flavesaens deHaan, 1829. Mem. Mus . Hist. Nat. Paris, 18: 



309. 

 Type host: Haliaeetus albioilla (Linnaeus) 

 New England hosts: 



Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus) — Golden Eagle. 



Haliaeetus leuooaephalus (Linnaeus) — Bald Eagle. 



Price and Beer (1963a) in their review of the ColpoaephaZym species 

 parasitic upon the Falconif ormes , list the following features charac- 

 teristic to the flavesaens group, which includes in addition to C. 

 flavescens , C. napifoiwe Rudow, 1869, parasitic upon Buteo jamaiaensis 

 (Gmelin) — Red-tailed Hawk: 



1. Occipital setae all long. 



2. Margin of prothorax with 5 long and 3 short setae each side. 



3. Tergocentral setae with minute to short setae among much longer ones, 



4. Abdominal segments of female essentially of same length. 



5. Females lack anterior setae on abdominal tergites. 



6. Anus of female oval, lacking inner setae (occasionally 1-2 dorsal 

 inner setae set very close to dorsal fringe; no dorsal indentation). 



7. Vulva broadly oval, without distinct lateral row of hooked setae. 



8. Male abdominal tergite IX without anterior setae. 



Specimens Host 



Locality 



Date 



Collector 



2 ? Haliaeetus leucooophalus Bar Harbor, Me. VIII-7-1933 A.E.B. 

 1 slide " " Swan Island, Me. XII-22-1946 M.C.Meyer 



(USNM) 

 1 slide " " Waltham, Mass. XI-12-1921 R.H.Howe 



(USNM) 

 1 slide " " Newmarket, NH X-6-1894 F.B.Webster 



(USNM) 



Measurements : 



2 9 (from Bar Harbor) 



Head Length 

 Head Width 

 Prothorax Width 

 Metathorax Width 

 Total Length 



Colpocephalum nanum Piaget , 1890 



Colpoaephalum nanum Piaget, 1890. Tijdschr. Ent, 

 fig. 10. 



Type host: Unknown. 



New England hosts: 

 Buteo lineatus (Gmelin) — Red-shouldered Hawk 

 Buteo jamaiaensis (Gmelin) — Red-tailed Hawk. 



33: 



257, pi. 10, 



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