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The Feather Louse Genus Mulcticola Clay Et Meinertzhagen, 1938 © Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS Folia Parasitologica 2015, 62: 036 doi: 10.14411/fp.2015.036 http://folia.paru.cas.cz Research Article The feather louse genus Mulcticola Clay et Meinertzhagen, 1938 (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from Brazil, with [ described in the genus Michel P. Valim1 and Kamila M. D. Kuabara2 1 Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; 2 Universidade São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo, Brazil Abstract: Five new species of Mulcticola Clay et Meinertzhagen, 1938 are described and illustrated from Brazil. These new species and their hosts are: Mulcticola sicki sp. n. from the sand-coloured nighthawk, Chordeiles rupestris rupestris (Spix), Mulcticola ba- curau sp. n. from the common pauraque, Nyctidromus albicollis (Gmelin), Mulcticola tendeiroi sp. n. from the long-trained nightjar, Macropsalis forcipata (Nitzsch), Mulcticola piacentinii sp. n. from the short-tailed nighthawk, Lurocalis semitorquatus semitorquatus (Gmelin) (type-host) and L. s. nattereri (Temminck), and Mulcticola parvulus sp. n. from the little nightjar, Setopagis parvula (Gould). These species were compared primarily with Mulcticola nacunda Carriker, 1945 from the nacunda nighthawk, Chordeiles nacunda nacunda (Vieillot), which is one of the species of Mulcticola [ described herein differ from their congeners by exclusive characters such as the shape of anterior dorsal head plate, metasternal plate, subvulvar plates in females and genitalia in males. We increased the number of species in Mulcticola to 18 in total, with seven of them now known from the Neotropics. We present the main morphological characters to distinguish Mulcticola from other species of the Philopteridae parasitising Caprimulgiformes and also compile a detailed catalogue for species included in this louse genus. Keywords: taxonomy, Caprimulgidae, chewing lice, nighjars, nighthawks, Neotropical region The genus Mulcticola Clay et Meinertzhagen, 1938 is close relatives. Also, we present a detailed and complete one of the almost 150 genera of chewing lice of the family catalogue for the known species of the genus Mulcticola. [ Carriker (1945) described three species of Mulcticola to nighjars and nighthawks, family Caprimulgidae (Aves, occurring in the Neotropical region. One of these species Caprimulgiformes). Mulcticola includes 13 described spe- was collected for us, and therefore used as a starting point cies (Hopkins and Clay 1952, Price et al. 2003) distributed for the morphological comparison of the new taxa. Al- ![" ["QMulcticola region, three occurring in the Indomalayan region, one in sp.’ in Brazil (Enout et al. 2012), the species treated below the Nearctic and one in Palaearctic regions, and three in the "" Neotropical region. Brazilian Caprimulgidae. The original description of Clay and Meinertzhagen #$%&[Mulcticola as MATERIALS AND METHODS most of the characteristics mentioned by those authors All the specimens studied are deposited in the Museu de Zoo- are common to many other currently recognised philop- logia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), with a number as- terid genera. Thus, the species in Mulcticola have been de- <["=® database for the scribed without a solid morphological generic diagnosis in Phthiraptera collection. Most of host vouchers are held in MZUSP comparison to other philopterids (Carriker 1945, Emerson ornithological collection and their unique numbers are also pro- and Elbel 1957, Tendeiro 1961, 1962). Ledger (1980), us- vided after host’s name. Other collections with host vouchers ing part of Clay’s unpublished key for Philopteridae, was studied are Museu Nacional of Universidade Federal do Rio de [ ' Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ) and Ornithological collection of for species of Mulcticola. Here we present a more detailed Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal (COUFRN), [" both in Brazil. Lice were permanently slide-mounted in Canada Address for correspondence: M.P. Valim, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, São Paulo-SP, Brazil. Phone: (+55) 11 2065-8100; Fax: (+55) 11 2065-8115; E-mail: [email protected] ZooBank number for article: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F9D07263-0B6E-446A-9651-11F9142E43A9 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. doi: 10.14411/fp.2015.036 Valim and Kuabara: Mulcticola (Phthiraptera) in Brazil balsam, following the technique in Palma (1978). Terminology marginal carina divided into pre- and post-marginal carinae; of head chaetotaxy follows that employed by Clay (1951) and dorsal anterior plate with posterior margin rather rounded, reinterpreted by Mey (1994), and that used for thoracic setae never pointed and thickened; dorsal preantennal suture en- follows the latter author. The dorsal sensilla present on head are circling posterolateral margin of dorsal anterior head plate named as proposed by Valim and Silveira (2014). Host common ending on its midline before level of mandibles (Fig. 2). ">&?#QX% Prothorax on each side with one anteromedian sensillum [ ! and one very short post-spiracular seta set on posterome- following abbreviations: ADHPL – anterior dorsal head plate dial margin; pterothorax divided medially, with one pair of length; ADHPW – anterior dorsal head plate width; AW – ab- anteromedian sensillum and on each side with two pairs dominal width (at level of segment V); GL – male genitalia of long setae set on posterolateral margin plus one lateral length; HL – head length (at midline and including the hyaline trichoid seta (tr, see Fig. 3) and one short and spine-like margin); PAW – preantennal width (at level of preconal setae); ventral seta (s, see Fig. 3). Coxa I fused ventrally, coxae II PL – paramera length; PTW – pterothorax width (at its posterior and III free and articulated with ventral portion of thorax, level); PW – prothorax width; TL – total length; TW – temporal coxae III with well sclerotised trochantin (Fig. 3). Tergite width (at level of marginal temporal setae 2). II divided medially, tergites III–VII only medially notched The extreme morphological homogeneity among the species but not entirely divided, other tergites entire; internal mid- of Mulcticola would make the morphological descriptions of each dorsal projection from each side of abdominal segment II ' Y" [ " - into pterothorax (Fig. 3). Female genitalia composed by scribed; other species are only compared and their informative one pair of subvulvar plates of distinct shapes depend- and diagnostic characters described. The nymphs were studied ing on species, one small internal genital sclerite associ- and measured based on their head and thorax features due to poor ated with internal genital opening, plus one very large and condition of the specimens that did not allow proper study of their weakly sclerotised calyx of spermatheca (Fig. 22). Male abdominal chaetotaxy. genitalia characteristic, with paramere robust and basally \ ! RESULTS set above latter seta; whole endomere and its lateral arms \"Y Taxonomy found exclusively on Caprimulgiformes (Caprimulgidae). Phthiraptera Haeckel, 1896 Remarks. We will compare primary Mulcticola with other genera of lice parasitising Caprimulgiformes and Ischnocera Kellogg, 1896 [ " - acters among these parasites, assuming they are closely Philopteridae Burmeister, 1838 related and form a generic complex (Clay 1957) parasitis- Mulcticola Clay et Meinertzhagen, 1938 ing Caprimulgiformes. Table 1 is presented to distinguish imagoes for the genera of the Philopteridae – Mulcticola, Type species: Mulcticola hypoleucus (Denny, 1842) (syn. Nyctibicola Cicchino, 1989 and Podargoecus Emerson et Nirmus hypoleucus Denny, 1842), by original designation and Price, 1966 – parasitising Caprimulgiformes. The medial monotypy. division of the pterothorax and the presence of one long Mulcticola Clay et Meinertzhagen, 1938. Entomologist anterior seta on each side of tergite II are shared by these 71(907): 279 (one species included). Carriker 1945: 173 three genera. Females share one spine-like seta each side (four new species); Hopkins and Clay 1952: 227 (world set below the vulvar margin and their vulvar margin is &[%[\\!$]^_`QX greatly convex medially (see Table 1 for further distinctive (two new species); Tendeiro 1961: 129 (one new species); characters). There are few other informative characteristics Tendeiro 1962: 345 (six new species); Price et al. 2003: that do not occur exclusively in these philopterid genera. 198 (world checklist, 12 species valid in total). The isolated comparison between the above-mentioned Distribution. Afrotropical region (Angola, Cameroun, characters among other philopterid genera could result Congo, Kenya, Sierra Leone), Indomalayan region (India, in a comparison of convergent adaptive characters of ho- Nepal, Thailand), Nearctic region (Canada, USA), Palae- mologous structures for the same host body region, eco- arctic region (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germa- morphological specialisation, a phenomenon very well ny, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, known in feather lice (Clay 1949, 1951, 1957, Johnson et UK), Neotropical region (Bolivia, Colombia, Peru). al. 2012). However, some of the key characters found in Diagnosis. This is the only philopterid genus with the species of Mulcticola and shared with
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