Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) Gustafsson 2020, new subgenus
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Daniel R.
name: Bush, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Philopteridae
Guimaraesiella

description: Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) Gustafsson & Bush, new subgenus
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Brueelia Kéler, 1936: 257 (in part).
Brueelia “clade C” Bush et al. 2016: 743, fig. 3c.
Type species: Brueelia dicruri Ansari, 1955 ex Dicrurus macrocercus albirictus (Hodgson, 1836).
Diagnosis. The subgenus Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) shares the following characters with the nominate subgenus: dorsal preantennal suture present; marginal carina interrupted at least medianly; pns and s4 present; as3 absent; psps present on tergopleurites IV–VII; setal rows absent on all tergopleurites in both sexes; ss present on tergopleurites II–VIII in both sexes; aps present on male tergopleurite VII; parameral heads folded medianly; gonopore open distally. However, species included in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) can be separated from those in the nominate subgenus by two characters of the male genitalia: (1) gonopore positioned terminally in species of Guimaraesiella (Guimaraesiella), but subterminally in species of Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 5, 12, 19); (2) rugose nodi present in species of Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 5, 12, 19), but absent in species of Guimaraesiella (Guimaraesiella). Both these characters are found in at least some species included in the subgenera Guimaraesiella (Mohoaticus) Mey, 2017 and Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) Gustafsson et al., 2019a (gombakensis and tenella species groups). Hence, Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) may be closer to one or both of these subgenera than to Guimaraesiella sensu stricto. Notably, in the phylogeny of Bush et al. (2016: 742, fig. 3(b), clade A-5), the subgenus Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) was not placed close to the nominate subgenus; however, no member of the subgenus Guimaraesiella (Mohoaticus) was represented in that phylogeny, and relationships among the deeper nodes within Guimaraesiella sensu lato were poorly resolved.
Species of Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) can be separated from species of Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) with rugose nodi by the following characters: (1) female subgenital plate with cross-piece in Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) (gombakensis and tenella species groups), but without cross-piece in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 7, 14, 21); (2) male gonopore ventral, near center of mesosome in Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) (both species groups), but subterminal in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 5, 12, 19); (3) ventral sclerite absent in Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) (gombakensis species group), but present in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 5, 12, 19); (4) parameral heads with corrugated section in Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) (both species groups), but without such corrugation in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 6, 13, 20); (5) dorsal preantennal suture completely separating dorsal anterior plate in Guimaraesiella (Cicchinella) (tenella species group), but not separating the dorsal anterior plate in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 3, 10, 17).
Species of Guimaraesiella (Mohoaticus) can be separated from Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) by the following characters: (1) dorsal preantennal suture not medially continuous median to ads and dorsal anterior plate continuous with roof of head in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 3, 10, 17), but suture medially continuous median to ads and dorsal anterior plate separated from roof of head in Guimaraesiella (Mohoaticus); (2) mesosomal lobes with straight or bulging lateral margins and rugose nodi either poorly delimited or on bulge in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 5, 12, 19), but with deeply sinuous lateral margins and rugose nodi clearly delimited ventrally by a noticeable ridge in Guimaraesiella (Mohoaticus); (3) gonopore smooth anteriorly in Guimaraesiella (Dicrurobates) (e.g. Figs 5, 12, 19), but serrated anteriorly in Guimaraesiella (Mohoaticus).
Description. Both sexes. Head shape variable, but preantennal area typically long and roughly trapezoidal, with flattened frons (e.g. Figs 3, 10, 17). Marginal carina broad, with irregular inner margins, interrupted medianly but not laterally (except in species where dorsal preantennal suture reaches lateral margins of head); frons hyaline, continuous with dorsal preantennal suture which reaches at least dsms, and may reach ads and lateral margins of head; ventral anterior plate present; temporal and occipital carinae not visible; antennae sexually monomorphic; temples gently rounded. Head chaetotaxy as in e.g. Figs 3, 10, 17; as3 absent; mts3 only temporal macrosetae.
Prothorax rectangular; psps on postero-lateral corners. Pterothorax roughly pentagonal, with lateral margins divergent and posterior margin either rounded or convergent to median point; mms moderately separated medianly. Meso- and metasterna not fused, each with 1 seta on each side on postero-lateral corners (e.g. Figs 1–2, 8–9, 15–16).
Male tergopleurites II–IX+X and female tergopleurites II–VIII divided medianly; ventral sections of tergopleurites generally slender. Sternal plates rectangular, not approaching ventral sections of tergopleurites; accessory sternal plates absent (e.g. Figs 1–2, 8–9, 15–16).
Male. Abdominal chaetotaxy sparse, differing slightly between species. Subgenital plate roughly triangular, lateral margins typically irregular (e.g. Figs 1, 8, 15). Genitalia: basal apodeme rectangular, with rounded anterior end, often constricted at mid-length (e.g. Figs 4, 11, 18). Proximal mesosome variable, typically quadratic or rectangular, narrow compared to distal mesosome; ventral sclerite present, variable between species; mesosomal lobes gener-ally wider than proximal mesosome, with distinct bulging nodi lateral to gonopore; these nodi are typically at least partially rugose; 2 ames sensilla and 2 pmes sensilla on each side (e.g. Figs 5, 12, 19). Parameral heads variable (e.g. Figs 6, 13, 20). Parameral blades tapering only distally, may be slightly elongated distal to mesosome; pst1 sensillus located proximal to pst2; pst2 microseta, near distal end of paramere (e.g. Figs 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20).
Female. Abdominal chaetotaxy sparse, differing slightly among species. Subgenital plate broad in anterior half, narrowing in posterior half; lateral margins of posterior half often irregular; subgenital plate does not reach vulval margin, but expands distally into lateral submarginal bulges; few vms and vss on each side; vos follow lateral margins of subgenital plate, with at least 1 distal vos separated from other vos by a gap, and distal most vos typically situated on or near distal margin of subgenital plate, near vss (e.g. Figs 7, 14, 21).
Host distribution. Species of Dicruridae, Oriolidae and Vangidae.
Geographical range. Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan and Australo-Papuan regions; presumably present outside these regions wherever drongos occur.
Etymology. The name Dicrurobates is formed by the host genus Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816 —from Greek “ dikros ” = “forked”, and “ oura ” = “tail”—combined with “ bates ”, Greek for “one who walks on something”.
description: Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R. & Bush, Sarah E., 2020, A new subgenus and eight new species of Guimaraesiella Eichler, 1949 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae: Brueelia-complex), pp. 151-188 in Zootaxa 4885 (2) on pages 152-154, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296469