Strigiphilus

Strigiphilus is a genus of chewing louse in the suborder Ischnocera. It was circumscribed in 1910 by Eric Mjöberg.[1]

Strigiphilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Phthiraptera
Family:	Philopteridae
Genus:	Strigiphilus Mjöberg, 1910[1]
Type species
Docophorus heterocerus Grube, 1851
Synonyms[1]
Eichlerius Złotorzycka, 1974[2] Eustrigiphilus Ewing, 1926[3] Neodocophorus Kéler, 1939[4] Tytoniella Eichler, 1949[5]

Taxonomic history

Mjöberg initially circumscribed Strigiphilus as a subgenus of the genus he referred to as Docophorus[6] (now known as Philopterus).

In a 1966 paper, Theresa Clay recognized 29 species and grouped them into the following nine species groups:[7]

• Strigiphilus rostratus (Burmeister, 1838) group
• Strigiphilus heterocerus (Grube, 1851) group
• Strigiphilus cursor (Burmeister, 1838) group
• Strigiphilus crenulatus (Giebel, 1874) group
• Strigiphilus macrogenitalis Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
• Strigiphilus strigis (Pontoppidan, 1763) group
• Strigiphilus siamensis Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
• Strigiphilus ketupae Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
• Strigiphilus cursitans (Nitzsch, 1861) group

The largest group is the S. curstans group.[8]

Hosts

Strigiphilus is the only genus of Ischnocera to exclusively parasitize owls.[9]^:340

Species

As of 2017, there are approximately fifty species of Strigiphilus.[1] Species include:

• Strigiphilus garylarsoni Clayton, 1990[8] (cursitans group)

References

1. "Strigiphilus Mjöberg, E.". Phthiraptera.info. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
2. Złotorzycka, Jadwiga (1974). "Revision der europäischen Strigiphilini (Mallophaga, Strigiphilinae)" (PDF). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. 44: 328–345.
3. Ewing, H. E. (1926). "Some recent generic derivatives of the mallophagan genus Philopterus Nitzsch (Philopteridae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 28 (6): 148.
4. Kéler, Stefan (1939). "Zur Kenntnis der Mallophagen-Fauna Polens". Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde. 11 (1): 53. doi:10.1007/BF02122077.
5. Eichler, Wolfdietrich (1949). "Phthirapterorum nova genera" (PDF). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana. 79 (1–2): 13.
6. Mjöberg, Eric (1910). "Studien über Mallophagen und Anopluren". Arkiv för Zoologi. 6 (13): 132–133.
7. Clay, Theresa (1966). "A New Species of Strigiphilus'(Philopteridae: Mallophaga)" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 8 (4): 835–847.
8. Clayton, Dale H. (1990). "Host Specificity of Strigiphilus Owl Lice (Ischnocera: Philopteridae), with the Description of New Species and Host Associations" (PDF). Journal of Medical Entomology. 27 (3): 257–265. doi:10.1093/jmedent/27.3.257.
9. Clayton, Dale H.; Price, Roger D. (1984). "Taxonomy of the Strigiphilus cursitans Group (Ischnocera: Philopteridae), Parasites of Owls (Strigiformes)" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 77 (4): 340–363. doi:10.1093/aesa/77.4.340.

Further reading

• Clay, Theresa (1975). "The macrogenitalis group of Strigiphilus (Philopteridae: Phthiraptera)" (PDF). Journal of Entomology. Series B, Taxonomy. 43 (2): 139–147. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1975.tb00124.x.
• Clay, Theresa (1977). "The Strigiphilus cursitans Group (Phthiraptera: Insecta)" (PDF). Records of the Queen Victoria Museum. 56: 1–4.