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Genus

Philopterus Nitzsch, 1818

Type

type species by original designation of Philopterus Nitzsch, 1818

Nomenclature (24)

  • Philopterus Nitzsch, 1818: 288.

    type species by original designation Pediculus ocellatus Scopoli, 1763

  • Docophorus Nitzsch, 1818: 289.

    type species by original designation Pediculus ocellatus Scopoli, 1763

  • Philopterus Nitzsch, 1818 in Najer, Papousek, Adam, Trnka, Quach, Nguyen, Figura, Literak & Sychra, 2020: 7.
  • Philopterus Nitzsch, 1818 in Najer, Papousek, Sychra, Sweet & Johnson, 2021 Description/Redescription; Phylogeny

Nomenclature references (16)

  • Nitzsch, C.L. (1818) Die Familien und Gattungen der Thierinsekten (insecta epizoica); als Prodromus einer Naturgeschicte derselben. Magazin der Entomologie, 3, 261–316.
  • Cummings, B.F. (1913) On some nondescript Anoplura and Mallophaga. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 4(1), 35–45.
  • Thompson, G.B. (1937) Further notes on the association of Hypoboscidae and Mallophaga. II. Mallophaga associated with insects other than Hippoboscidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 20, 441–444.
  • Clay, T. (1940) Anoplura. British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37 Scientific Reports, 1(5), 295–318.
  • Conci, C. (1941) Nuovi generi di Mallofagi (nota preliminare). Bolletino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 73, 126–127.
  • Eichler, W. (1944) Notulae Mallophagologicae. XI. Acht neue Gattungen der Nirmi und Docophori. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 105, 80–82.
  • Uchida, S. (1948) Studies on the biting-lice (Mallophaga) of Japan and adjacent territories (Suborder Ischnocera Pt. I). 1, 303–326.
  • Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. (1952) A check list of the genera & species of Mallophaga. British Museum of Natural History, London, 362 p.
  • Kéler, S. (1963) Insekten 1. Tiel 13. Ordnung: Läuselinge, Federlinge und Haarlinge Mallóphaga. In Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Leipzig, Germany. . Vol. 4, Issue 7b, pp. 1–31.
  • Foster, M.S. (1969) The eggs of three species of Mallophaga and their significance in ecological studies. Journal of Parasitology, 55(2), 453–456.
  • Zlotorzycka, J. & Eichler, W. (1984) Notulae Mallophagologiae. XIV. Prunellides annae nov. gen. et spec. von Prunella modularis. 25, 219–221.
  • Fowler, J.A. & Williams, L.R. (1985) Population dynamics of Mallophaga and Acari on reed buntings occupying a communal winter roost. Ecological Entomology, 10, 377–383. Available at http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/0106.pdf
  • Rékási, J. (1993) Bird lice (Mallophaga) parasiting the Birds in Hungary. 100, 71–93. Available at http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/41455.pdf
  • Sychra, O., Palma, R.L., Saxena, A.K., Ahmad, A., Bansal, N. & Adam, C. (2011) Chewing lice of the genus Philopterus (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from drongos (Passeriformes: Dicruridae). Zootaxa, 2868, 51–61.
  • Najer, T., Papousek, I., Adam, C., Trnka, A., Quach, V.T., Nguyen, C.N., Figura, R., Literak, I. & Sychra, O. (2020) New records of Philopterus (Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Acrocephalidae and Locustellidae, with description of one new species from Regulidae. European Journal of Taxonomy, 632, 1–37. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.632
  • Najer, T., Papousek, I., Sychra, O., Sweet, A.D. & Johnson, K.P. (2021) Combining Nuclear and Mitochondrial Loci Provides Phylogenetic Information in the Philopterus Complex of Lice (Psocodea: Ischnocera: Philopteridae). 58(1), 252–260.

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Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1067
Species158086244
Subspecies202022