Specimens Host 



Erolia maratima 

 Erolia alpina 



1 slide 



1 slide 



1 slide 

 1 slide 



1 slide Ereunetes pusillns 



Saemundssonia sp . 



Locality Date 

 New Hampshire V-1-1933 

 N.Eastham.Mass. X-26-1930 



Rye, NH 

 Seabrook, NH 



X-26-1930 

 X-2-1933 



IX-29-1936 



Collector 



L.R.Nelson 



(USNM) 



H.S.Peters 



(USNM) 



K.C.Emerson 



L.R.Nelson 



(USNM) 



USNM 



Collections of this undescribed species were made from the Thick- 

 billed Mure, Uria lomvia. 



Specimens Host 



2 5 , Itf . 



3 imm. 

 5 9, Id" , 

 1 imm. 



Locality 



Uria lomvia Kittery, Me. 

 " " Bar Harbor, Me. 



Date 



1-26-1964 

 1-24-1934 



Collector 



A.E.B. 



STRIGIPHILUS 



M 



Strigiphilus Mjoberg, 1910. Ark. Zool., 6: 132. 



Type species: Docophorus heteroaerus Nitzsch, 1861 (neo Grube, 

 1851) (A synonym of Strigiphilus goniodicerus Eichler, 1949). 

 Eus trigiphi lus Ewing, 1926. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 28: 148. 



Type species: Philopterus ceblebraohys (Denny, 1842). 

 Tytoniella Eichler, 1949a. Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital., 79: 13. 



Type species: Docophorus rostratus Burmeister, 1838. 



Head large; forehead irregularly rounded, with sides evenly 

 rounded. Dorsal anterior plate undivided and extending anteriorly 

 nearly to the front of the head; clypeal bands distinct, dark and ex- 

 tending to the margin of the head. Trabeculae reduced, not reaching 

 tip of 1st antennal segment in the majority of described species. 

 Temporal lobes rounded, slightly expanded laterally. Prothorax short; 

 pterothorax broader than basal segment of the abdomen. Abdomen 

 variable, broad and stout in many species, usually deeply pigmented 

 with prominent spiracles and distinct pleural plates, the latter with 

 serrate posterior borders. Genitalia of male with long basal plate, 

 fused endomeres and short stubby free parameres. True penis absent. 

 Members of this genus are parasitic upon birds of the order Strigif ormes , 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, 



Strigiphilus aoutifrons Emerson, 1961 



Strigiphilus aoutifrons Emerson, 1961. 



74: 189, figs. 2 and 10. 

 Type host: Bubo virginianus (Gmelin) — Great Horned Owl. 



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