Measurements: Quadraaeps charadrii hospes (Nitzsch, 1866) 



Head Length 

 Head Width 

 Prothorax Width 

 Pterothorax Width 

 Abdomen Length 

 Abdomen Width 

 Total Length 



Specimens Host 





Squatarola squatarola 



Quadraaeps fissus (Burmeister, 1838) 



Nirmus fissus Burmeister, 1838. Handb. Ent., 2: 427. 

 Nirmus hiaticulae Denny, 1942 (nee? 0. Fabricius, 1780). Mon. 



Anopl. Brit.: 52 and 136, pi. 11, fig. 10. 

 Nirmus arassipes Denny, 1952. List Brit. Animals in Brit. Mus . , 



pt. II, Anoplura: 21 {nn for N. fissus Burmeister, 1838). 

 Nirmus opacus Kellogg and Chapman, 1899. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. 



Sci. ,6: 83, pi. 6, fig. 6. 

 Type host: Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus. 

 New England host : 



Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte — Semipalmated Plover. 



Head elongate, conical with colorless clypeal region slightly 

 expanded in front of the suture; 5 marginal setae in the preantennal 

 region; antennae not reaching the occipital margin; temples flatly 

 rounded with 2 long and 2 very short setae; occipital margin straight. 



Measurements: Quadraaeps fissus (Burmeister, 1838) 

 (from Kellogg and Chapman, 1899) 



Head Length 

 Head Width 

 Abdomen Width 

 Total Length 



d 



.40 

 .31 



.47 

 1.11 



9 



.47 



.28 



.45 



1.75 



Quadraaeps hiatiaulae hiatiaulae (0. Fabricius, 1780) 



Pediaulus hiatiaulae 0. Fabricius, 1780. Fauna Groenlandica: 



220. 

 Quadraaeps praegriailis Carriker, 1956. Rev. Brasil. Ent., 5: 



136, fig. 22. 

 Type host: Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus. 

 New England host : 



Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte — Semipalmated Plover. 



136 



