Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



23 9, 5 cj* Bonasa wnhellus Bar Harbor, Me. VII-23-1936 A.E.B. 



LIPEURUS 



Lipeurus Nitzsch, 1818. Germar's Mag. Ent . , 3: 292. 



Type species: Pediaulus aaponis Linnaeus, 1758 (By subsequent 

 designation. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) . 



Long and slender Philopteridae. Head rounded in front, that of 

 male usually with a post-antennal constriction, width at temples 

 usually less than width at widest part of preantennal region. Females 

 differ in having no post-antennal constriction and in having the width 

 at the temples equal to, or greater than, the preantennal width. 

 Trabeculae of female shorter than in male and triangular in outline; 

 those of male narrow, curved on the anterior margin. Antennae of male 

 with 1st segment enlarged and extended, bearing a short appendage. 

 Third segment with distal angle projected. Antennae of female filiform. 

 Preantennal region without suture or modification of the integument. 

 Prothorax without lateral setae or spines; meso-metathoracic junction 

 usually visible on the lateral margin of the pterothorax. Abdomen 

 elongate, pleurites without complex re-entrant heads and similar in both 

 sexes. Tergal plates of male transversely continuous; setae few; female 

 with thickening in the form of tergal plates on abdominal segments 

 II-VI, usually more pronounced toward the center, forming a central 

 hour-glass pattern, not always apparent. 



Lipeurus aaponis (Linnaeus, 1758) 



Pediaulus aaponis Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., ed. 10: 614. 

 Lipeurus variabilis Burmeister, 1838. Handb. Ent., 2: 43A. 

 Nirmus tessellatus Denny, 1842. Mon. Anopl. Brit.: 49 and 121, 



pi. 7, fig. 2. 

 Lipeurus antennatus Piaget, 1885 (nee Giebel, 1874). Les 



Pediculines, Supplement: 75, pi. 8, fig. 3. 

 Lipeurus variabilis alpha Kellogg, 1908. In Wytsman's Gen. Ins., 



66, Mallophaga: 45. 

 Lipeurus variabilis beta Kellogg, 1908. In Wytsman's Gen. Ins., 



66, Mallophaga: 45. 

 Lipeurus variabilis gamma Kellogg, 1908. In Wytsman's Gen. Ins., 



66, Mallophaga: 45. 

 Lipeurus lineatus McGregor, 1917a (nee Giebel, 1874). Psyche, 24: 



114, pi. 7, figs. 2 and 5. 

 Lipeurus dovei McGregor, 1918. Psyche, 25: 46 {nn for L. lineatus 



McGregor, 1917a, nee Giebel, 1874). 

 Lipeurus formosanus Sugimoto, 1929 (nee Uchida, 1917). Rept. 



Dept. Agri. Res. Inst. Formosa, 43: 53. 

 Lipeurus aaponis boraherti Eichler, 1953a. Mh. Vet. Med., 8: 566, 



fig. 

 Lipeurus bakeri Carriker, 1956. Florida Ent., 39: 128, fig. 76. 

 Type host: Chicken. 



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