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

Michel Valim1

1 Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, 60605-2496, Chicago, United States

Corresponding author(s): Michel Valim (mpvalim@hotmail.com)

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Phthiraptera Ischnocera Philopteridae Brueelia Aves Trogoniformes Trogonidae Trogon Pharomachrus Neotropical

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.pensoft.net/ipt/resource.do?r=trogon_brueelia_2011 

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Brueelia species (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) parasitizing Trogons (Aves: Trogonidae) 
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Brueelia sueta, Brueelia cicchinoi, Brueelia insolita
Common names: chewing louse, chewing louse, chewing louse
Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Host species of Trogons (Aves: Trogonidae) parasitized by Brueelia (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Philopteridae)
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Pharomachrus pavoninus, Trogon viridis, Trogon melanurus, Trogon massena, Trogon melanocephalus, Trogon collaris, Trogon mexicanus
Common names: Pavonine Quetzal, White-tailed Trogon, Black-tailed Trogon, Slaty-tailed Trogon, Black-headed Trogon, Collared Trogon, Mountain Trogon

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: map
Coordinates: 55°41'24''S and 35°3'36''N Latitude; 121°5'60''W and 30°4'48''W Longitude

Project description

Project title: Southern Amazonian Birds and Their Symbionts: Biodiversity and Endemicity of Parasites From the Most Diverse Avifauna on Earth
Personnel: Jason Weckstein
Funding: U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-1120054 and DEB-0515672)?
Brazilian National Science Foundation [Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico] (200453/2010-6)

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: several
Collection name: several
Collection identifier: several
Specimen preservation method: Microscopic preparation

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Two new species of Brueelia Kéler, 1936 (Ischnocera, Philopteridae) parasitic on Neotropical trogons (Aves, Trogoniformes)
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.pensoft.net/ipt/archive.do?r=trogon_brueelia_2011
Publication date of data: 2011-08-31
Language: English

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2011-08-31
Heirarchy level: Dataset

References
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