Measurements: Fulicoffula longiphila (Kellogg, 1896) 

 (from Kellogg, 1896) 



Head Length 

 Head Width 

 Width 

 Total Length 



Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



1 slide Fulica amerioana Wenham Lake, Mass. X-5-1923 W.S.Brooks 



(BMS Coll.) 



GONIOCOTES 



Goniocotes Burmeister, 1838. Handb. Ent . , 2: 431. 



Type species: Rioinus gallinae DeGeer, 1778 (By subsequent 

 designation, Johnston and Harrison, 1911, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. W. , 36: 326) . 

 Diatyocotes Keler, 1939. Nova Acta Leop. Carol. (n. f.), 8: 153. 

 Type species: Goniocotes haplogonus Nitzsch, 1866. 



The general characteristics of the genus Goniocotes are quite 

 similar to those of the genus Goniodes Nitzsch, 1818, except that this 

 genus is smaller in size and the antennae of the male are never appen- 

 diculated. The antennae of the males sometimes have the 1st and 2nd 

 segments larger than the corresponding segments of the females. Meso- 

 and metathorax fused into a pterothorax. Parameres of the male 

 genitalia very elongate stylets. Members of this genus are ectopara- 

 sitic on birds of the order Galliformes. 



Goniocotes chrysocephalus Giebel, 1874 



Goniocotes chrysocephalus Giebel, 1874. Insecta Epizoa: 189. 

 Type host: Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus — Ring-necked Pheasant. 



Emerson (1951) reports this species from Montana. 



Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



1 slide Phasianus colchicus Mt . Carmel, Conn. IV-18-1943 G.H. Plumb 



1 slide " " W.Greenwich, RI IV-15-1958 J . A.Mathewson 



I have been unable to find a description of this species and 

 with the existing figures it is impossible for me to distinguish this 

 species from Goniocotes gallinae (DeGeer, 1778). Emerson (1951) states 

 that he was unable to find many instances of lice infesting birds which 

 were not considered the normal hosts. Therefore, these are quite 

 likely G. chrysocephalus . 



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