A new Cummingsia (Mallophaga: Trimenoponidae) from a Peruvian mouse-opossum (Marsupialia)
1988; Kansas (Central States) Entomological Society; Volume: 61; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1937-2353
Autores Tópico(s)Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
ResumoA new species of chewing louse, Cummingsia izori (Mallophaga: Trimeno ponidae), is described and illustrated from a Peruvian mouse-opossum, Marmosa noctivaga (Marsupialia: Didelphidae). To date C. izori is known only from two individual hosts from the type locality in Peru; however, we suspect that this species of louse will be found on M. noctivaga throughout its range in the Amazonian basin of northern Brazil, eastern Ecuador, eastern and central Peru, and northwestern Bolivia. The mallophagan genus Cummingsia Ewing historically has been one of the most enigmatic and poorly known of the chewing lice parasitizing New World mammals. In a revision of the genus (Timm and Price, 1985), we recognized six species of Cummingsia, most being found on South American marsupials of the family Didelphidae; however, one species was from a South American rodent of the family Cricetidae. These species and their hosts are: C albujai Timm and Price, 1985, from Caenolestes fuliginosus (Tomes); C. inopinata Mendez, 1971, from Thomasomys cinereiventer J. A. Allen, T. erro Anthony, and T. laniger (Thomas); C. intermedia Werneck, 1937, from Marmosa dry as Thomas and M. incana (Lund); C maculata Ferris, 1922, from Lestoros inca (Thomas); C pe ramydis Ferris, 1922, from Monodelphis brevicaudata (Erxleben) and M. domes tica (Wagner); and C perezi Timm and Price, 1985, from Caenolestes convelatus Anthony. At that time we suggested that numerous new species of the genus Cummingsia remained to be discovered. Two new species of Cummingsia sub sequently have been described: C barkleyae Price and Emerson, 1986, from Thomasomys sp. and C gardneri Price and Emerson, 1986, from Marmosa im
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