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Rallicola
Sign in to saveRallicola is a genus of chewing louse. It is an ectoparasite of rails and other birds. It was named by Thomas Harvey Johnston and Launcelot Harrison in 1911. There are two subgenera aside from the nominotypical subgenus: Aptericola, whose species are found on kiwis, and Huiacola, a monospecific subgenus consisting of Rallicola extinctus, once found on the huia.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 393
- With media
- 402
- Family
- Philopteridae
- Collections
- USNM, UWM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Peru, United States, India, Guyana, Indonesia, Thailand, Venezuela, Guam
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Taxonomic history
- Type species
- Synonyms
- Hosts
- Distribution
- Subgenera and species
- ''Rallicola''
- ''Aptericola''
- ''Huiacola''
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
Rallicola is a genus of chewing louse. It is an ectoparasite of rails and other birds. It was named by Thomas Harvey Johnston and Launcelot Harrison in 1911. There are two subgenera aside from the nominotypical subgenus: Aptericola, whose species are found on kiwis, and Huiacola, a monospecific subgenus consisting of Rallicola extinctus, once found on the huia.
==Taxonomic history== In 1866, Ferdinand Rudow circumscribed the Philopteridae genus Trabeculus with Trabeculus schillingi as its type species. In 1870, he created a new genus, Oncophorus with the same type species, making it an objective junior synonym of Trabeculus. In 1880, Édouard Piaget added more species to Oncophorus. He listed the author citation as "Rud." for Rudow in 1880, but as "m." for '' to indicate himself in 1885.
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