Pthirus gorillae

Taxonavigation

Pthirus gorillae

Taxonavigation: Anoplura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Ordo: Psocodea Subordo: Troctomorpha Infraordo: Nanopsocetae Subinfraordinal group: Phthiraptera Superfamily group: Anoplura

Familia: Pthiridae
Genus: Pthirus
Species: Pthirus gorillae

Name

• Pthirus gorillae Ewing, 1927
  • Primary type: lectotype
    • Fixation: designated by Kim & Emerson, 1968: 694
    • Description: nymph 1
    • Repository: USNM 'type 40161'
  • Type association(s): Gorilla gorilla beringei

Primary references

• Ewing, H.E. 1927: Descriptions of three new species of sucking lice, together with a key to some related species of the genus Polyplax. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 29 (5): 118–121. BHL [first availability, see p. 120]
• Kim, K.C.; Emerson, K.C. 1968: Description of two species of Pediculidae (Anoplura) from great apes (Primates, Pongidae). Journal of parasitology, 54 (4): 690–695. JSTOR full article (PDF) [lectotype designation, see p. 694]

References

• Reed, D.L. et al. 2007: Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice. BMC biology, 5:7. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-7
• Gorillas in the mist.