Cuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866) 



Lipeurus heterographus Nitzsch, 1866. In Giebel, Z. ges. NatWiss., 



28: 381. 

 Gonioaotes burnetii Packard, 1870. Amer. Nat., 4: 94, fig. 26. 

 Lipeurus pallidus Giebel, 1874. Insecta Epizoa: 219. 

 Lipeurus heterographus major Piaget, 1880. Les Pediculines : 362. 

 Gonioaotes eynsfordii Theobald, 1896. Parasitic Diseases Poultry: 



26, fig. 8. 

 Cuclotogaster laticorpus Carriker, 1936. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philad., 88: 67, pi. 1, fig. 2. 

 Type host: Chicken. 



This species is known as the "chicken head louse" and has a world- 

 wide distribution. It is common throughout the United States and has 

 been recorded by Wilson (1928) New York, Peters (1928) Ohio, Procter 

 (1938) Maine, Brimley (1938) North Carolina, Emerson (1940) Oklahoma, 

 and Brown and Wilk (1941) reported it on pheasant chicks in Alberta, 

 Canada. 



C heterographus is the only species of the genus found in New 

 England, therefore, the genus description will serve for identification 

 of this species. 



Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



3 cf Chicken Lincoln, Me. Fall 1940 W.J.Clayton 



5 9 " Danville, NH IV-23-1956 



11? , 70" " Durham, NH 1-30-1922 P.R.Lowry 



CUCULICOLA 



Cuculioola Clay and Meinertzhagen, 1939a. Entomologist 72: 165. 

 Type species: Degeerielta laterostris (Burmeister, 1838). 



Head circumfasciate; no lateral indication of clypeal suture, but 

 with a preantennal dorsal curved transverse suture. Clavi small; no 

 occipital bands or signature. Pterothorax showing lateral indication of 

 meso-metathoracic junction; meso- and metasternal hairs present. Abdo- 

 men narrow and elongate; segment I small; tergal plates II-VI separated 

 medially; sternal plate central; pleurites narrow with re-entrant 

 heads. Male with segments VIII and IX small, the latter with narrow 

 thickened marginal band. Terminal segment of female with flattened 

 posterior margin. 



Cuculioola erythropthalmus Emerson, 1964a 



Cuculioola erythropthalmus Emerson, 1964a. Ent . News, 75: 69, 



figs. 1-3. 

 Type host: Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson) — Black-billed 

 Cuckoo . 



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