Gyropus Nitzsch 1818
Creators: name: Valim, Michel P.
name: Linardi, Pedro Marcos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phthiraptera
Gyropidae
Gyropus

description: Gyropus Nitzsch, 1818
Gyropus Nitzsch 1818: 302 (diagnosis and synopsis of species). Burmeister 1838: 442 (key of the genera in ‘Liotheida’ family). Denny 1842: 244 (generic characteristics and synopsis of species). Gervais 1844: 315 (generic characteristics and synopsis of species). Gervais 1849: 102 (generic characteristics). Giebel 1874: 246 (generic characteristics and synopsis of species). Piaget 1880: 608 (generic characteristics and synopsis of species). Railliet 1895: apud Werneck (1948: 52). Kellogg 1896: 68 (generic characteristics). Kellogg 1908: 5 (key to genera and species of the suborder Amblycera), 52 (generic characteristics and synopsis of species). Mjöberg 1910: 20 (generic characteristics and synopsis of species). Neumann 1912b: 212 (generic characteristics, inclusion of all species of the Gyropidae in the genus Gyropus, and review of species of that family). Kellogg and Ferris 1915: 65 (generic characteristics and synopsis of the North American species). Ewing 1924: 12 (generic characteristics, and review of species of the family Gyropidae), 13 (key to Gyropus species). Séguy 1944: 52 (generic characteristics and synopsis of the French species). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 160 (checklist). Price et al. 2003: 27 (key for genera found on Rodentia), 76 (checklist). Type locality. According to Ewing (1924: 15): “ Cavia cobaya probably living under conditions of domestication”. Type species. Gyropus ovalis Burmeister, 1838 (by subsequent designation of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, see Hopkins (1951) for further explanation).
Haemabarus Nitzsch [in Giebel] 1874: 6 (new name for Gyropus, “ nomen nudum ”). Type species. Gyropus ovalis Burmeister. Hopkins and Clay 1952: 162 (junior synonym of Gyropus; checklist). Price et al. 2003: 77 (checklist; a junior synonym of Gyropus).
Diplocerus Nitzsch [in Giebel] 1874: 6 (new name for Gyropus, “ nomen nudum ”). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 117 (synonym of Gyropus; checklist). Price et al. 2003: 75 (checklist; a junior synonym of Gyropus).
Monogyropus Ewing 1924: 10. Type species. Gyropus longus Neumann (by original designation). Werneck 1936a: 394 (morphological arguments to reject this genus) and 419 (synonym of Gyropus). Werneck 1948: 52 (a junior synonym of Gyropus; morphological arguments to reject this genus). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 226 (checklist; a junior synonym of Gyropus). Price et al. 2003: 78 (checklist; a junior synonym of Gyropus).
Tetragyropus Ewing 1924: 21. Type species. Gyropus lineatus Neumann (by original designation). Werneck 1933: 153 (description of T. cruzi). Werneck 1934a: 167 (note about a drawing in original description of T. cruzi). Werneck 1934b: 277 (description of T. martini). Werneck 1936a: 394 (morphological arguments to reject this genus) and 419 (a junior synonym of Gyropus). Werneck 1948: 52 (a junior synonym of Gyropus; morphological arguments to reject this genus). Hopkins and Clay 1952: 348 (checklist; a junior synonym of Gyropus). Price et al. 2003: 79 (checklist; a junior synonym of Gyropus).
Eogyropus Eichler 1952: 76. Type species. Gyropus lenti lenti Werneck (by original designation). Hopkins and Clay 1953: 438 (a synonym of Gyropus; acceptance as a subgenus; checklist). Price et al. 2003: 75 (checklist; a junior synonym of Gyropus).
description: Published as part of Valim, Michel P. & Linardi, Pedro Marcos, 2008, A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae), pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 1899 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274532