Guimaraesiella Eichler 1949
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Guimaraesiella

description: Guimaraesiella Eichler, 1949
Docophorus Nitzsch, 1818: 289 (in partim).
Nirmus Nitzsch, 1818: 291 (in partim).
Degeeriella Neumann, 1906: 60 (in partim).
Brueelia Kéler, 1936: 257 (in partim).
Guimaraesiella Eichler, 1949: 11.
Xobugirado Eichler, 1949: 13.
Allobrueelia Eichler, 1951: 36 (in partim).
Allobrueelia Eichler, 1952: 74 (near-verbatim redescription).
Maculinirmus Złotorzycka, 1964: 247 (in partim).
Olivinirmus Złotorzycka, 1964: 246 (in partim).
Allonirmus Złotorzycka, 1964: 263.
Nitzschnirmus Mey & Barker, 2014: 101.
Callaenirmus Mey, 2017: 92.
Philemoniellus Mey, 2017: 145.
Type species: Docophorus subalbicans Piaget, 1885: 6 [= Docophorus papuanus Giebel, 1879: 475], by original designation.
Remarks: The two species described herein belong to a tentative group of lice here called the “ interposita species group”. Members of this group can be identified by the following combination of characters: head generally dome-shaped, but may have slightly flattened frons, never extended anteriorly as in Guimaraesiella papuana (Giebel, 1879) (Gustafsson & Bush, 2017, fig. 356); dorsal anterior plate continuous posteriorly with main head plate; antennae sexually monomorphic; female subgenital plate with at least partial cross-piece, often submarginal in lateral ends; male genitalia typical for Guimaraesiella (see Gustafsson & Bush 2017, figs 6–10, 358), without rugose nodi or thickenings on the mesosomal lobes, but also without a ventral sclerite. Most of the species in this group occur on thraupid hosts.
The “ interposita species group” includes at least the following species: Guimaraesiella interposita (Kellogg, 1899), G. melanococa (Carriker, 1903), G. ptiliogonis (Carriker, 1903), G. abbasi (Carriker, 1956), G. rhamphocelii (Cicchino, 1983), G. schistacea (Cicchino, 1983) and G. atricapilla (Cicchino, 1983). Guimaraesiella taulis (Eichler [in Niethammer], 1956) probably belongs to this group as well, but the only known female is too poorly preserved to confirm its status. Guimaraesiella granatensis (Soler-Cruz, Rodríguez, Florido-Navío & Muñoz-Parra, 1987) may also belong to this group, but we have not examined any material of this species, and the original species description is not detailed enough to determine its position. However, not all Guimaraesiella from thraupid hosts belong to the interposita group. For instance, Guimaraesiella cubana (Cicchino, 1983) does not belong to this group, but to a group of Guimaraesiella more commonly found on mimid hosts.
Since there was no species of the Guimaraesiella interposita species group included in the phylogeny of the Brueelia -complex by Bush et al. (2016), its position within Guimaraesiella is unknown. The species in the group are similar to the “core Guimaraesiella ” (sensu Gustafsson et al. 2019), and many species are superficially similar to species of Guimaraesiella found on thrushes (Turdidae). Notably, both species described here lack the anterior extension of the ventral sclerite in the male mesosome that is characteristic of the “core Guimaraesiella ”.
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R. & Bush, Sarah E., 2025, Two new species of Guimaraesiella Eichler, 1949 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Tristan da Cunha finches, pp. 363-372 in Zootaxa 5588 (2) on page 364, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/14896237