Goniocotes kristinae Gustafsson & Tian & Zou 2021, new species
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Tian, Chunpo
name: Zou, Fasheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Philopteridae
Goniocotes
Goniocotes kristinae

description: Goniocotes kristinae new species
(Figs 7–9, 12)
Type host: Lophura swinhoii (Gould, 1863) —Swinhoe’s Pheasant (Phasianidae).
Type locality: China (Zoo).
Diagnosis. Goniocotes kristinae new species is most similar to Goniocotes diplogonus Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1866 (see Kéler 1939: fig. 88), but can be separated by the following characters: male preantennal area proportionately shorter and frons flatter in G. kristinae (Fig. 7) than in G. diplogonus; sutural setae present on male abdominal segment V in G. kristinae (Fig. 7), but absent in G. diplogonus; male pterothorax with numerous small setae medianly on posterior margin in G. kristinae (Fig. 7), but only one central seta on each side here in G. diplogonus; sternal section of female tergopleurite IV with two setae on each side apart from that situated at the posterior corner (Fig. 9), but without such setae on this segment in G. diplogonus.
Description. Both sexes. Head shape as in Fig. 7; temples flaring slightly, with distinct postero-lateral corner near aperture of mts1. Marginal carina slender, with irregular inner margin. Head chaetotaxy as in Figs 7, 9; os sexually dimorphic; s1–2 and s6–9 present, as well as one sensillum situated roughly on a line between pts and pns, which may be any of s3–5. Thoracic and abdominal segments and chaetotaxy as in Figs 7, 9. Reticulation covers almost all of dorsal surface of head, tergal, sternal and subgenital plates, pro- and pteronotal, and at least parts of femora. For clarity, we have here illustrated only parts of this reticulation in grey, to indicate the relative size of the cells in the pattern. Measurements as in Table 1.
Male. Ocular seta macroseta (Fig. 7). Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 7; median section of posterior margin of pteronotum with multiple setae (2–4 longer marginal setae and 1–2 shorter submarginal setae on each side); ss present on tergopleurites II–V; tps present on tergopleurites II–IV. Male genitalia solenoid (Fig. 8).
Female. Ocular seta microseta (Fig. 9). Thoracic and abdominal segments and chaetotaxy as in Fig. 9; ventral submarginal ps present on abdominal segment IV. Vulval margin as in Fig. 12; 9–12 short, slender vms and 2–4 short, thorn-like vss on each side; 6–8 short, slender vos on each side.
Etymology: The specific epithet is in honour of the first author’s mother, Kristina Bergman Gustafsson, who has supported his interest in and love for animals of all kinds since childhood —a love she has not always understood. With happiness tinged with fear, she has watched her son travelling ever farther away from the safety of the parental home in search of birds and lice finally to settle in the other end of the world. It is hoped that this dedication will go some way towards ameliorating the many sleepless nights she has spent on the first author’s account, and repay some of deep, enduring love she has given him over the years.
Type material. Ex “ Hierophasis swinhoii ” = Lophura swinhoii: Holotype ♂, China (Zoo), Nov. 1937, R. Mei- nertzhagen, ID 10671, NHMUK1010675588 [middle male on slide] (NHMUK). Paratypes. 4♂, 3♀, same data as holotype, NHMUK010675587–88 (NHMUK).
Remarks. It is unclear from the slide labels whether the type specimens were collected from a zoo in China, a zoo in Taiwan (where the host species is endemic), or in another zoo, London Zoo for example. The reference to “ China ” is a statement of the presumed natural range of the louse.
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Tian, Chunpo & Zou, Fasheng, 2021, New species of ischnoceran chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from Chinese birds, pp. 305-328 in Zootaxa 4990 (2) on page 310, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5026555