Pectinopygus sulae

Pectinopygus sulae (Rudow, 1869) Fig. 3c, d Lipeurus sulae Rudow, 1869: 43. Lipeurus helleri Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902: 479. Lipeurus tuberculatus Piaget, 1885: 61. Description: Measurements: Male (n = 2): HL: 0.80–0.81; HW: 0.68–0.69; HI: 1.18–1.21; TL: 0.56–0.57; AL: 2.60–2.63; Total L: 3.96–3.99. Female (n =3): HL: 0.80–0.83; HW: 0.70–0.71; HI: 1.14–1.19; TL: 0.56–0.58; AL: 2.30–2.32; Total L: 3.66–3.69. Head conical in shape with numerous setae, especially around the hyaline margin, frontal part slightly expanded; first antennal segment of male as long as all the other segments combined, the first antennal segment of female largest and the 5 th antennal segment brown; temporal margin flatly convex. Thorax trapeZoidal, fore legs very short, mid and hind legs very long, eqUal in length; metathorax with irregUlar margins with five long setae on posterior lateral margin.Abdomen elongated with highly chitinised margins in both sexes, all segments with complete dark brown bands, tergal plates with two short central setae; each sternum with four short setae, 9 th segment of female deeply angularly emarginated with numerous setae; male genitalia asymmetrical with sharp pointed end. Material examined: Ex Sula leucogaster, 5♂ 3♀ JaZan ToUrism Marina, SaUdi Arabia, 23.iv.2013. Ex Sula dactylatra, 3♂ 1♀ Al-Hallaniyah Island, Oman, 15.ix.2014. Known hosts Sula leucogaster, Brown booby (type host); Sula dactylatra, Masked booby; Sula sula (L.), Red-footed booby. Local hosts Sula leucogaster and Sula dactylatra.
Published as part of Nasser, Mohamed Gamal El-Den, Al-Ahmed, Azzam, Ansari, Mohammad Javed & Shobrak, Mohammed Y., 2015, Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) infesting breeding Suliformes (Aves: Aequornithes) of the Arabian Peninsula, pp. 709 in African Invertebrates 56 (3) on pages 713-715, DOI: 10.5733/afin.056.0313, http://zenodo.org/record/7914758
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