Measurements: Quadraceps ravus (Kellogg, 1899) 



d 9 * 



Head Length .40 .40 



Head Width .30 .31 



Prothorax Width .19 



Pterothorax Width .30 



Abdomen Length .72 — 



Abdomen Width .40 .37 



Total Length 1.38 1.43 



* from Kellogg (1899) 



Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



1 cT Actitis macularis Durham, NH IX-4-1965 B.Barrett 



1 slide " " Orono, Me. — Cornell Coll. 



Quadraceps sellatus sellatus (Burmeister, 1838) 



Nirmus sellatus Burmeister, 1838. Handb. Ent., 2: 428. 

 Philopterus stellatus Gervais , 1844. In Walckenaer, Hist. Nat. 



Insectes, 3: 346 (misspelling). 

 Nirmus sellinger Giebel, 1861. Z. ges . NatWiss., 18: 315 {nn for 



N. sellatus Burmeister, 1838). 

 Type host: Sterna hirundo Linnaeus — Common Tern. 



I have no data on this species of Mallophaga. 



Quadraceps similis (Giebel, 1866) 



Nirmus similis Giebel, 1866. Z. ges. NatWiss., 28: 374. 

 Nirmus interruptus Piaget, 1880. Les Pediculines: 173, pi. 14; 



fig. 6. 

 Nirmus olypeatus Kellogg and Paine, 1914. Rec. Indian Mus . , 10: 



237, pi. 14, fig. 3. 

 Degeeriella austini Peters, 1931. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 24: 585, 



fig. 2. 

 Degeeriella dissimilis Blagoveshtchensky , 1948. Mag. Parasit., 



Leningr. , 10: 283, figs. 15 and 15a. 

 Type host: Tringa nebularis (Gunnerus) . 

 New England host: 



Totanus melanoleuous (Gmelin) — Greater Yellowlegs. 



An elongate Quadraceps with posterolateral angles of the ptero- 

 thorax with 2 long and 3 short setae; 3 setae near the middle of the 

 dorsal margin of the pterothorax. Abdominal pleurites narrow. Male 

 genitalia distinctive, the parameres and endomeres are sharply elbowed 

 and pointed. 



Sp ecimens Host Locality Date Collector 



4 9 , 3 cf Totanus melanoleuous Durham, NH VIII-30-1965 J.E.K. 



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