Two new species of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 (Ischnocera, Philopteridae) parasitic on Neotropical trogons (Aves, Trogoniformes)

Michel Valim

doi:10.3897/zookeys.128.1583

Two new species of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 (Ischnocera, Philopteridae) parasitic on Neotropical trogons (Aves, Trogoniformes)

Citation

Valim M (2011). Two new species of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 (Ischnocera, Philopteridae) parasitic on Neotropical trogons (Aves, Trogoniformes). ZooKeys. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.128.1583 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-09.

Description

Two new species of Brueelia are described and illustrated. These new species and their type hosts are: Brueelia sueta ex Pharomachrus pavoninus (Spix, 1824), the Pavonine Quetzal and Brueelia cicchinoi ex Trogon viridis Linnaeus, the White-tailed Trogon. Both new species differ from the only Brueelia described on Trogon mexicanus by many morphological features, including those present in the male genitalia and female vulvar margin. Partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene for these two new species differ from one another by 13.6% uncorrected p-distance. Whereas B. cicchinoi is only 0.3% divergent from previously published COI sequences identified as Brueelia sp. from the Mexican T. melanocephalus Gould, 1936 and T. massena Gould, 1938. We also found B. cicchinoi on T. melanurus, T. collaris and Pharomachrus pavoninus. Thus B. cicchinoi is found on multiple trogoniform hosts across an extremely large geographic distribution and has one of the largest number of host associations among Brueelia species.

Taxonomic Coverages

Brueelia species (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) parasitizing Trogons (Aves: Trogonidae)

Brueelia sueta
common name: chewing louse rank: species
Brueelia cicchinoi
common name: chewing louse rank: species
Brueelia insolita
common name: chewing louse rank: species

Host species of Trogons (Aves: Trogonidae) parasitized by Brueelia (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Philopteridae)

Pharomachrus pavoninus
common name: Pavonine Quetzal rank: species
Trogon viridis
common name: White-tailed Trogon rank: species
Trogon melanurus
common name: Black-tailed Trogon rank: species
Trogon massena
common name: Slaty-tailed Trogon rank: species
Trogon melanocephalus
common name: Black-headed Trogon rank: species
Trogon collaris
common name: Collared Trogon rank: species
Trogon mexicanus
common name: Mountain Trogon rank: species

Geographic Coverages

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Bibliographic Citations

Valim MP, Weckstein JD (2011) Two new species of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 (Ischnocera, Philopteridae) parasitic on Neotropical trogons (Aves, Trogoniformes). ZooKeys 128: 1–13. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.128.1583 - 10.3897/zookeys.128.1583

Contacts

Michel Valim
originator
position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605-2496
Illinois
US
email: mpvalim@hotmail.com

Michel Valim
metadata author
position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605-2496
Illinois
US
email: mpvalim@hotmail.com

Michel Valim
administrative point of contact
position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605-2496
Illinois
US
email: mpvalim@hotmail.com