Brueelia doisuthepensis Gustafsson & Najer & Zou & Bush 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Najer, Tomas
name: Zou, Fasheng
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Brueelia
Brueelia doisuthepensis

description: Brueelia doisuthepensis sp. nov.
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Figs 50–56
Diagnosis
Brueelia doisuthepensis sp. nov. is most similar to Brueelia yunnanensis sp. nov., with which it shares the following characters: abdominal segment IV with 1 ps on each side in both sexes (Figs 50–51, 99–100); abdominal segment VII with 2 ps on each side in both sexes (Figs 50–51, 99–100); female abdominal segment VI with 1 ps on each side (Figs 51, 100); male tergopleurite IV without aps (Figs 50, 99); male tergopleurite VIII with 1 tps on each side (Figs 50, 99); proximal mesosome rectangular (Figs 55, 104).
These two species can be separated by the following characters: differences in head shape (Figs 52, 101); rugose area of mesosome covering more than half of mesosomal lobes in Br. doisuthepensis sp. nov. (Fig. 55), but covering only distal margin of mesosomal lobes in Br. yunnanensis sp. nov. (Fig. 104); gonopore more slenderly crescent shaped in Br. doisuthepensis sp. nov. (Fig. 55) than in Br. yunnanensis sp. nov. (Fig. 104); proximal part of parameres more elongated in Br. doisuthepensis sp. nov. (Fig. 54) than in Br. yunnanensis sp. nov. (Fig. 103); female subgenital plate with distinct distal ‘neck’ connecting plate to cross-piece in Br. doisuthepensis sp. nov. (Fig. 56), but with shorter connection in Br. yunnanensis sp. nov. (Fig. 105). Apparent differences in female vulval chaetotaxy may be due to the small number of specimens examined, and may overlap.
Etymology
The species name is derived from the type locality.
Material examined
Holotype (ex Alophoixus ochraceus ochraceus) THAILAND • ♂; Chiang Mai Province, Doi Su Thep; 10 Apr. 1962; K. Thonglongya leg.; 745; BPBM.
Paratypes THAILAND • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; BPBM.
Type host
Alophoixus ochraceus ochraceus (Moore, 1858) – ochraceous bulbul (ochraceus).
Description
Both sexes
Head flat dome-shaped (Fig. 52), lateral margins of preantennal area convex, frons broadly flattened. Marginal carina slender, shallowly displaced and translucent at osculum, median margin of lateral sections weakly undulated. Ventral anterior plate not pigmented and therefore not visible. Head chaetotaxy as in Fig. 52; pos located far behind eye. Lateral margins of postantennal head more or less parallel, temples rounded, occiput slightly rounded. Thoracic and abdominal segments as in Figs 50–51. Pigmentation nearly uniform, pale yellow, but marginal carina, preantennal nodi, proepimera, metepisterna, and lateral sections of tergopleurites slightly darker.
Male
Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 50; ss not visible on segments V–VII in single examined male, but may be present. Basal apodeme short and broad (Fig. 53), only slightly constricted at mid- length. Proximal mesosome roughly rectangular (Fig. 55), not visibly narrowed posteriorly. Mesosomal lobes broad, intensely rugose in medio-distal end, and with most of ventral surface scaly; 2 pmes sensilla latero-distal to gonopore. Gonopore crescent shaped, with no lateral extensions. Penile arms do not reach beyond distal margin of mesosomal lobes. Parameres elongated distally (Fig. 54); pst1–2 as in Fig. 54. Measurements as in Table 1.
Female
Abdomen of single examined female slightly distorted, and here illustrated approximately. Thoracic and abdominal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 51. Subgenital plate as in Fig. 56, with 2 short, slender vms and 4 short, thorn-like vss on each side; 4 short, slender vos on each side of subgenital plate; distal 1 vos median to vss. Measurements as in Table 1.
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R., Najer, Tomas, Zou, Fasheng & Bush, Sarah E., 2022, The ischnoceran chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) of bulbuls (Aves: Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae), with descriptions of 18 new species, pp. 1-88 in European Journal of Taxonomy 800 on pages 33-36, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.800.1683, http://zenodo.org/record/6358666