Haematopinus eurysternus
Creators: name: Kazim, Abdul-Rahman
name: Houssaini, Jamal
name: Tappe, Dennis
name: Heo, Chong-Chin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Haematopinidae
Haematopinus
Haematopinus eurysternus

description: Haematopinus eurysternus (Denny, 1842)
Pediculus eurysternus Nitzsch, 1818: 305. Nomen nudum.
Pediculus eurysternus Burmeister, 1838: Species 14. Suppressed by Opinion 1050 (I.C.Z.N. 1976).
Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842: 29, pl. 25: fig. 5. Preserved by Opinion 1050 (I.C.Z.N. 1976).
Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842; Giebel 1874: 41, pl. 2: fig. 8.
Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch, 1818) [sic]; Ferris 1933: 448, figs 263–264.
Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch) [sic]; Webb 1946: 91, figs 189–204.
Haematopinus eurysternus; Roberts 1950: 136, figs 1D–E, 2A.
Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch, 1818) [sic]; Ferris 1951: 88, figs 39–40.
Haematopinus brevipes Fiedler & Stampa 1956: 63, figs 23–27.
Haematopinus palpebrae Gretillat, 1957: 167, figs 1–3. In part.
Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch) [sic]; Stimie & van der Merwe 1968: 190, figs 3–4.
Haemotopinus [sic] eurysternus; Mustaffa-Babjee 1969: 37.
Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842; Kim & Weisser 1973: 45.
Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842; Meleney & Kim 1974: 511, figs 1–3, 18, 22, 24, 27, 30, 33.
Haematopinus eurysternus Denny, 1842; Kim et al. 1986: 82, pl. 18.
Haematopinus eurysternus (Nitzsch, 1818) [sic]; Durden & Musser 1994: 15.
Type host: Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 – Domestic cattle.
Malaysian host: Bos taurus.
Malaysian localities: Kota Bharu (Kelantan) Peninsular Malaysia (Ferris 1933, see Remarks); “West Malaysia ” (Mustaffa-Babjee 1969).
Geographical distribution: Cosmopolitan, in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions (Durden & Musser 1994; Price & Graham 1997).
Remarks: The adult male and female of Haematopinus eurysternus were redescribed and illustrated by Ferris (1933). Roberts (1950) provided a morphological comparison and a dichotomous key to distinguish H. eurysternus from H. quadripertusus. Meleney & Kim (1974) revised the three morphologically close species that infest cattle: H. eurysternus, Haematopinus quadripertusus Fahrenholz, 1916 and Haematopinus tuberculatus (Ferris 1933).
Durden & Musser (1994) stated that the distribution of Haematopinus eurysternus was in temperate zones, although several studies have recorded it in subtropical and tropical regions (Rawat et al. 1992; Lasisi et al. 2010; Rony et al. 2010; Bilkis et al. 2011; Houssain et al. 2016; Al-Mayah & Hatem 2018; Mannan et al. 2019).
Ferris (1933) recorded H. eurysternus from a “bull” and “calf” in “Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malay Peninsula” but, considering that he regarded H. quadripertusus as a junior synonym under H. eurysternus, it is not possible to determine which species Ferris (1933) had actually examined. Pathogens previously detected in H. eurysternus include the zoonotic Coxiella burnetii and Rickettsia (Reeves et al. 2006; Hornok et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2022, An annotated checklist of sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, with lists of hosts and pathogens, pp. 301-336 in Zootaxa 5214 (3) on page 306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7389119