Revisión preliminar de las especies del género <i>Brueelia</i> Kéler, 1936 (Phthiraptera, Philopteridae) parásitas de Icterinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae)

Abstract

RESUMENLas especies del género Brueelia que parasitan distintos táxones de Icterinae presentan un conjunto de características somáticas que permiten discriminarlas en dos agrupamientos informales de especies, aquí denominados grupo picturata y grupo ornatissima, este último subdividido en dos: subgrupo cela y subgrupo amazonae. En esta aportación nos ocupamos de la caracterización morfológica de los citados agrupamientos y de la descripción o notas taxonómicas de las veintidós especies hasta hoy conocidas que incluimos en el grupo picturata y en el grupo ornatissima: Brueelia picturata

Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) from wild birds in southern Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species

“…All morphological features including characterization of abdominal setae of Brueelia were measured and described according to Cicchino & Castro (1996) and Najer et al (2012a). The descriptions of the new species are attributed to the first two authors of this paper.…”

Two new species of Brueelia (Phthiraptera: Philopteridas s. l.) parasitic on two species of Phrygilus (Aves: Emberizidae) from Chile

“…They show morphological similarities with Brueeliaspecies infesting species of Sturnella Vieillot, 1816 sensu Short (1968) (see Cicchino & Castro 1996) by having the following features: 1) gena and subgenal areas and hypostomal, occipital and postoccipital sutures (in the sense of Symmons 1952) not markedly pigmented, 2) female vulva with at most three (rarely four in some individuals) short and spiniform setae each side, 3) pulvinar edge of frontoclypeal suture lacking pigmented maculae, and hypostomal, occipital and postoccipital sutures not markedly pigmented, 4) males with postspiracular seta present on tergite V (rarely inconspicuous in some individuals).…”

A new species of Brueelia Kéler (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) parasitic on the common diuca-finch, Diuca diuca diuca (Aves: Emberizidae) in Chile

“…Those parasitic on blackbirds (Icteridae), a taxon frequently treated as close to Emberizidae, have been dealt with by Cicchino (1980Cicchino ( , 2004 and Cicchino & Castro (1996). Many Brueelia species parasitic on emblematic Chilean emberizine and icterine bird species still remain undescribed.…”

“…Setae terminology of the body chaetotaxy follows those in Cicchino & Castro (1996). All measurements were taken from mounted specimens by means of a calibrated eyepiece, all expressed in millimeters and identified by the following abbreviations: HL head length, POW preantennal width, OW maximum width of the head, PL prothorax length, PW prothorax width, PTL pterothorax length, PTW pterothorax width, AL abdominal length, AW maximum width of the abdomen, TL total body length, GL male genitalia length (taken from the apex of the basal plate to the tip of mesosomal complex), GW maximum width of the male genitalia (taken at level of the insertion of paramera to the basal plate).…”

“…Brueelia diucae sp. nov. is reminiscent of some species belonging to the picturata-group of Cicchino & Castro (1996), parasitic on blackbirds of the genus Sturnella, in particular B. picturata (Osborn) and B. boae (Cicchino & Castro) by sharing the following features: a) occipital and postoccipital sutures and genal and subgenal areas of the head lacking pigmetation, b) gular plate is entire and almost uniformly pigmented, c) abdominal tergites and subgenital plates of both sexes are uniformly pigmented, and golden brown to yellowish, d) paratergal plates are dark, brownish, contrasting well with the lighter pigmentation of their respective tergites, and e) parameres of the external male genitalia are longly triangular in shape. It differs of all of them by having a different shape of the head, male and female abdominal chaetotaxy, most of the body measurements and proportions of the features of the male genitalia.…”