Ardeicola goisagi Uchida, 1953 



Ardeioola goisagi Uchida, 1953. Iconographia Insectorum 



Japonicorum, Tokyo: 109, fig- 269. 

 Type host: Nyctioovax nyotiaorcuc (Linnaeus) — Black-crowned Night 

 Heron. 



Males and females appear morphologically similar to other members of 

 this group. This species is distinguished by the tergel pigmentation in 

 both sexes being limited to a small area on the anterior lateral angle 

 of tergites II-VII. 



Measurements : cf 9 



Head Length .69 .75 



Prothorax Width .30 .33 



Pterothorax Width .37 .44 



Abdomen Length 1.56 2.04 



Abdomen Width .57 .69 



Total Length 2.69 3.29 



BRUELIA 



Bruelia Keler, 1936. Arb. morph.-tax. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem, 3: 257. 



Type species: Bruelia rossittensis Keler, 1936. (A synonym of 

 Nirmus brachythora:c Giebel, 1874). 

 Meropsiella Conci, 1941. Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital., 73: 104. 



Type species: Nirmus apiastri Denny, 1842. 

 Corvonirmus Eichler, 1944. Stettin. Ent. Ztg., 105: 81. 



Type species: Nirmus unainosus Burmeister, 1838. 

 Painjunirmus Ansari, 1947. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, 13: 285. 



Type species: Painjunirmus pengya Ansari, 1947. 

 Traihoriella Ansari, 1947. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, 13: 290. 



Type species: Traihoriella punjabensis Ansari, 1947. 

 Guimaraesiella Eichler, 1949a. Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital., 79: 11. 



Type species: Dooophorus subalhiaans Piaget, 1885. (A synonym of 

 Docophorus papuanus Gieb 1, 1879). 

 Xobugirado Eichler, 1949a. Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital., 79: 13. 



Type species: Nirmus submarginellus Nitzsch, 1866. (A synonym of 



Nirmus menuraelyrae Coinde, 1859). 



Allobruelia Eichler, 1951. In Forschung und Praxis, Bedeutung der 



Vogelwelt, Berlin: 36. 



II , 

 Type species: Allobruelia amsel Eichler, 1951. 



Turdinirmus Eichler, 1951. In Forschung und Praxis, Bedeutung der 



Vogelwelt, Berlin: 36. 



Type species: Turdinirmus merulensis (Denny, 1842). 



Within the genus Bruelia can be seen a series of species ranging 

 from those having an entire marginal carina and no dorsal anterior plate 

 to those species having the marginal carina interrupted medially and 

 laterally and having the dorsal anterior plate well developed (Clay, 

 1951). Head quite large, "thimble shaped", with preantennal region 

 bluntly conic. All known species have the ventral carina of the head in- 



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