Corvonirmus latifasciatus (Piaget 1880)
- Dataset
- Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Phthiraptera
- family
- Philopteridae
- genus
- Corvonirmus
- species
- Corvonirmus latifasciatus
Corvonirmus latifasciatus (Piaget 1880)
Corvonirmus latifasciatus (Piaget, 1880)
Nirmus latifasciatus Piaget, 1880: 143, pl. 11, fig. 11.
Baja California: Haematopus palliatus frazari, San Martin Island, 1897, R.C. McGregor (Kellogg & Mann 1912). Note: One specimen of C. latifasciatus was identified by Kellogg & Mann (1912) as “ Nirmus latifasciatus Piaget ”. The host record is most likely the result of a contamination because no species of Corvonirmus is a regular and natural parasite of any oystercatcher species (see Price et al. 2003).