Checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) on birds of Peru
Citation
Iannacone J, Minaya D, Príncipe F (2024). Checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) on birds of Peru. Version 1.6. Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15470/u1jtiu accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-24.Description
Peru is one of the countries with the highest diversity of birds worldwide, having about 1,876 species in its territory. However, studies focused on chewing lice (Phthiraptera) have been carried out on only a minority of bird species. The available data are distributed in 87 publications in the national and international literature. In this checklist we summarize all the records to date of chewing lice on wild and domestic birds in Peru. Among the 301 species of birds studied, 266 species of chewing lice were recorded. The localities with the highest records were the Departments of Cusco, Junín, Lima and Madre de Dios. No records of birds parasitized by these lice have been found in seven departments of Peru. Studies related to lice have only been reported in 16% of bird species in the country, indicating that research concerning chewing lice has not yet been performed for the the majority of birds in Peru.Sampling Description
Study Extent
Most of the records and reports of lice in birds in Peru were published in national and international media between 1936 and 2020. As these data are scattered over various databases (virtual and physical), the objective of this study was to summarize this literature and present it as an annotation list, specifying the hosts and the localities where the hosts were captured.Sampling
The study of bird lice in Peru began with the renowned world pioneer and specialist in Neotropical Mallophaga, Melbourne Carriker Jr. one of the first researchers to describe lice species in Peruvian birds. Carriker's long trajectory in the study of malophaga began in 1902 but it was not until 1936 that he published a registry of mallophaga, including 26 species of lice collected from nine species of birds of the order Tinamiformes (tinamúes, partridges) from the departments of Amazonas, Cajamarca, Junín, La Libertad, Lima, Puno and San Martín. From 1936 to 1967, Carriker continued to publish more records of mallophagous birds from the neotropics, including those from Peru. Among these multiple publications, 26 mention at least one species collected in Peru, making a total of 78 species of mallophaga reported in Peru during this period, and establishing a broad base for this country.Quality Control
This revised list was prepared from an extensive bibliographic review of reported lice records on birds from Peru from 1936 to 2020 in the main international databases, as well as physical documents from collections and museums. This list does not include the records of abstracts at scientific meetings, congresses or symposia. The nomenclature of lice follows that of Price et al. (2003) and Smith et al. (2020).Method steps
- The revised list is made up of two sections: the first contains a list of the lice species, their synonyms, hosts, the locality where the birds were collected, the corresponding reference, and in some cases a comment; the second includes the list of host birds, their common name, their conservation status according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and their respective lice. This section is arranged in alphabetical order according to the orders and families of the birds (appendix 1). The host nomenclature follows that of Schulenberg et al. (2010) and Plenge (2020). Additionally, a map of Peru with its respective departments is presented to indicate the distribution of the species and hosts registered in each department.
Taxonomic Coverages
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Phthirapterarank: order
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Amblycerarank: suborder
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Menoponidaerank: family
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Ricinidaerank: family
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Philopteridaerank: family
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Animaliarank: kingdom
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Arthropodarank: phylum
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Insectarank: class
Geographic Coverages
Peru is one of the countries with the highest diversity of birds worldwide, having about 1,876 species in its territory.
Bibliographic Citations
- Minaya, D., Príncipe, F., Iannacone, J., 2021. Checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) of the birds of Peru. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, 19: 7–52, Doi: https://doi.org/10.32800/amz.2021.19.0007 - https://doi.org/10.32800/amz.2021.19.0007
Contacts
José Iannaconeoriginator
position: GISA, Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Lima
15007
PE
email: joseiannaconeoliver@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3699-4732
D. Minaya
originator
position: GISA, Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Lima
15007
PE
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9085-5357
F. Príncipe
originator
position: GISA,Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Lima
15007
PE
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6092-9995
José Iannacone
metadata author
position: GISA, Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Lima
15007
PE
email: joseiannaconeoliver@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3699-4732
Montse Ferrer
publisher
position: Managing Editor AMZ
Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Ps Picasso s/n.
Barcelona
08003
Barcelona
ES
email: montseferrerf@gmail.com
D. Minaya
administrative point of contact
position: GISA, Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Lima
15007
PE
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9085-5357
F. Príncipe
administrative point of contact
position: GISA,Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Lima
15007
PE
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6092-9995
J. Iannacone
administrative point of contact
position: GISA, Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Lima
15007
PE
email: joseiannaconeoliver@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3699-4732