PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 105(4). 2003. pp. 915-924 REVIEW OF THE GENUS SAEMVNDSSONIA TIMMERMANN (PHTHIRAPTERA: PHILOPTERIDAE* FROM THE ALCIDAE (AVES: CHARADRHFORMES), INCLUDING A NEW SPECIES AND NEW HOST RECORDS Roger D. Price, Ricardo L. Palma, and Dale H. Clayton (RDP) 4202 Stanard Circle, Fort Smith, AR 72903-1906, U.S.A. (e-mail: ipricelice@ aol.com); (RLP) Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. P.O. Box 467, Wellington. New Zealand (e-mail: ricardop@tepapa.govt.nz); (DHC) Department of Biology, 257 South 1400 East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT X4112-()840. U.S.A. (e-mail: Clayton @ biology.utah.edu ) Abstract. — We describe the new species Saemiindssonia boschi recently collected from Least Auklets (Aethia piisilla (Pallas)) in Alaska and review the 11 names previously applied to Saemuiulssonia Timmermann species from alcids. Saetnundssonia procax (Kel-logg and Chapman) is relegated to a new junior synonym of 5. giylle (O. Fabricius). along with the previously recognized junior synonym 5. inegacepludns (Denny). The nine previously described valid species are redescribed and illustrated and four new host re-cords are documented from alcids. Finally, a key is provided for the identification of the ten recognized species of alcid Saemiindssonia. Key Words: chewing lice, Saemundssonia, Phthiraptera, Philopteridae. Alcidae Recent fieldwork by DHC in Alaska yielded a series of lice from Least Auklets, Aethia piisilla (Pallas), and Crested Auk-lets, A. cristatella (Pallas). Examination of this material revealed a new species of Sae-mundssonia Timmermann from the Least Auklet. In describing this new species, we review the status of all 1 1 species-level names cunently applied to the alcid lice of the genus Saemundssonia. We here rede-scribe the nine valid species, describe the new species, establish a new junior syno-nym and continue to recognize a previously established synonym, give four new host re-cords, and provide a key for the identifi-cation of these ten species. The material examined for this study is held in the following institutions: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Washington. D.C. (USNM): De-partment of Biology, University of Utah. Salt Lake City (UU); University of Min-nesota. St. Paul (UM); K. C. Emerson Mu-seum, Oklahoma State University, Stillwa-ter (OSU): Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (MONZ); and Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley (UC). Genus Saemundssonia Timmermann Saemundssonia Timmermann 1936: 97. Type species: Docophorus gonothora.x Giebel, by original designation. This large genus contains over 100 rec-ognized species and subspecies, primarily from hosts in the avian order Charadriifor-mes and, to a lesser extent, from the orders Procellariiformes, Gruiformes, Pelecanifor-mes, and Anseriformes. Typical species of this genus appear much as in Fig. 2, with a
Review of the genus Saemundssonia Timmermann (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from the alcidae (Aves: Charadriiformes), including a new species and new host records
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