Designation of neotype for Colpocephalum thoracicum Kellogg and Paine, 1914 (Phthiraptera: Insecta) with some remarks on distribution
Fri, 2007-02-02 15:01 — Vince Smith
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 1980 | |
| Authors | Lakshminarayana, K. V.; Price, Roger DeForrest | |
| Journal Title | Oriental Insects | |
| Volume | 14 | |
| Issue | 3 | |
| Pages | 383-386 | |
| Accession Number | 37601 | |
| Abstract | The collections of chewing lice studied by Kellogg & Paine, 1914 were damaged or lost in R. Varuna floods at Varanasi during 1944, when the Zoological Survey of India collection was housed there during the II World War. During a recent study by the first author of the type collections available in the department, the type slide of Colpocephalum thoracicum Kellogg & Paine, was found without the coverslip or specimen. This species was found by the second author to be a valid one and was' redescribed from the material available to him. Recently, material in the British Museum (Natural History), London, was also examine d by the authors and the neotype and neoparatype are now designated in this paper. Some remarks on the distribution of the species and host relationship are also provided. | |
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