A new flea, Ectinorus (Ectinorus) insignis n. sp. (Siphonaptera, Rhopalopsyllidae, Parapsyllinae), with notes on the subgenus Ectinorus in Chile and comments on unciform sclerotization in the superfamily Malacopsylloidea

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Table 1.

Presence or absence of unciform sclerotization in the superfamily Malacopsylloidea.

Family	Subfamily	Genus	Subgenus	Species/subspecies	Presence or absence of unciform sclerotization
Malacopsyllidae		Malacopsylla Weyenberg, 1881		grossiventris ¹ (Weyenberg, 1879) (Figure 13)	Presence Visible in Smit’s drawings (1987) [35]
		Phthiropsylla Wagner, 1939		agenoris ¹ (Rothschild, 1904) (Figure 14)
Rhopalopsyllidae	Parapsyllinae	Delostichus Jordan, 1942		ojedoi Beaucournu & Gallardo, 2005 smiti Jameson & Fulk, 1977 [18] talis (Jordan, 1936) xenurus (Rothschild, 1914)	Females not studied or unknown Presence or absence undeterminable
				coxalis (Rothschild, 1909) (Figure 15) degus Beaucournu, Moreno & González-Acuña, 2011 [10] incisus Beaucournu & Torres-Mura, 1987 [12] octomyos Jordan, 1942 [22] phyllotis Johnson, 1957 [19]	Presence Sometimes difficult to see in some coxalis and incisus, but these specimens may have been overcleared
		Tetrapsyllus Jordan, 1931	Phylliver Smit, 1987	bleptus (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) Females provisionally assigned to elutus Johnson, 1957	Presence Males not studied
			Tetrapsyllus s. sto	comis Jordan, 1931 contortrix Jameson & Fulk, 1977 tristis Johnson, 1957 [19]	Females not studied Presence or absence undeterminable
				amplus (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) corfidii (Rothschild, 1904) maulinus Beaucournu & Gallardo, 1978 (Figure 16) rhombus Smit, 1955 tantillus (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923)	Presence Sclerotization in T. rhombus is visible in Figure 117 of Smit (1987) [36]
			Heteropsyllus Beaucournu, 2002 [1]	incisus ¹ Beaucournu & Torres-Mura, 1986 (Figure 17) [11]	Presence
Rhopalopsyllidae	Parapsyllinae	Ectinorus Jordan, 1942	Panallius Jordan, 1942	galeanus ¹ (Jordan, 1939)	Absence
			Ectinorus s. sto.	barrerai Jordan, 1939 chilensis Lewis, 1976 [25] cocyti (Rothschild, 1904) curvatus Beaucournu & Gallardo, 1991 gallardoi ² Hastriter, 2001 [14] hirsutus Hastriter, 2009 ineptus Johnson, 1957 (Figure 1) insignis n. sp. (Figure 10) ixanus (Jordan, 1942) levipes (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) martini Lewis, 1976 [25] nomisis Smit, 1987 pilosus Beaucournu & Carmen Castro, 2002 setosicornis Jordan, 1942 (E. simonsi Rothschild, 1904, not examined but included with nomisis (see above)) splendidus Smit, 1968 uspallatae Beaucournu & Gallardo, 2002 viscachae (Wagner, 1931)	Presence Female of lagidium Beaucournu & Gallardo, 2005 [8] is unknown Female of mimacydis Beaucournu & Gallardo, 2004 [7] is unknown
			Ichyonus Smit, 1987	onychius onychius (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923)	Presence Visible in Smit’s drawings (1987) [35]
		Eritranis Jordan, 1942		andricus ¹ (Jordan, 1939)	Presence
		Listronius Jordan, 1942		fortis (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) plesiomorphus Beaucournu & Gallardo, 1991 (Figure 18) robertsianus ² (Jordan, 1938) ulus (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923)	Presence
		Parapsyllus Enderlein, 1903		cardinis* Dunnet, 1961 dacunhai De Meillon, 1952 heardi De Meillon, 1952 humboldti Jordan, 1942 jacksoni* Smit, 1965 longicornis* (Enderlein, 1901) lynnae lynnae* Smit, 1965 lynnae alynnae* Smit, 1979 magellanicus magellanicus* Jordan, 1938 nestoris nestoris* Smit, 1965 nestoris antichtones Smit, 1979 (Figure 20) (cardinis group) senellarti Beaucournu & Rodhain, 1990 (Figure 19) struthophilus Smit, 1979 valedictus* Smit, 1979 (longicornis group)	Presence indicate Smit’s drawings (1965, 1979, 1987) with unciform sclerotization For P. longicornis, note that Christchurch’s females (from Amsterdam Island) clearly show unciform sclerotization while P. longicornis* from Isla Magdalena (Southern Chile) do not or barely show it.
	Rhopalopsyllinae	Rhopalopsyllus Baker, 1905		australis australis (Rothschild, 1904) australis tamoyus Jordan & Rothschild, 1923* [24] lugubris lugubris Jordan & Rothschild, 1908 (Figure 21)* lutzi lutzi (Baker, 1904)* saevus Jordan & Rothschild, 1923 [24]	Presence *indicate a “mancha escura” reported by Linardi & Guimarães (2000) [27]
				garbei (Guimarães, 1940)	No or little sclerotization
		Tiamastus, Jordan, 1939		callens (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24] cavicola (Weyenbergh, 1881) deflatus Smit, 1987* gallardoi Beaucournu & Kelt, 1990 [9] helicis Beaucournu & Carmen Castro, 2003 (3) (Figure 22) palpalis (Rothschild, 1911)* plesius Jordan, 1942* subtilis (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24] tortuosus Beaucournu & Carmen Castro, 2003 [3]	Presence *indicate Smit’s drawings (1987) [36] with unciform sclerotization
		Scolopsyllus Méndez, 1968		colombianus ^{^{1, 2}} Méndez, 1968 [29]	Neither the original description nor Smit show sclerotisation
		Hechtiella Barrera, 1952²		nitidus ² Johnson, 1957	Presence on Figure 190 in Linardi & Guimarães (2000) [27]
				lakoi ² Guimarães, 1948 lopesi ² Guimarães & Linardi, 1993
		Neotropsylla Linardi & Guimarães, 1993 [26]		guimaraesi ^{^{1, 2}} Linardi, 1978
		Polygenis Jordan, 1939	Gephyropsylla Barrera, 1952	klagesi klagesi (Rothschild, 1904) (Figure 23) klagesi rangeli ² Smit, 1987 klagesi samuelis (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24]
			Ayeshaepsylla Smit, 1987	thurmanni ² Johnson, 1957	Presence in all taxa studiedSmit (op. cit.) [36] shows no sclerotization for any of these species or subspecies
			Neopolygenis Linardi & Guimarães, 1993 [26]	atopus (Jordan & Rothschild, 1922) dentei ² Guimarães, 1947 frustratus Johnson, 1957 massoiai Del Ponte, 1967 pradoi (Wagner, 1937) (Figure 25) pygaerus ² (Wagner, 1937)	Linardi & Guimarães (op. cit.) [27] note a “mancha escura” for: P. klagesi klagesi P. adelus P. atopus And a “mancha clara escamiforme” for P. tripusThese are unciform sclerotizations recognizable on photographs (Figure 171, 211, 302 and 330 in Linardi & Guimarães, 2000) [27]
Rhopalopsyllidae	Rhopalopsyllinae	Polygenis Jordan, 1939	Polygenis Jordan, 1939	acodontis ² (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24] adelus ² (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24] adocetus ² Traub, 1950 axius axius (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24] axius pessoai ² Guimarães, 1956 axius proximus ² Guimarães, 1948 bolhsi bolhsi (Wagner, 1901) bolhsi jordani (Da Costa Lima, 1937) brachinus Jordan, 1950 caucensis ² Méndez, 1977 delpontei Méndez, 1977 dendrobius ² (Wagner, 1939) dunni (Jordan & Rothschild, 1922) floridanus ² Johnson & Layne, 1961 gwyni (Fox, 1914) guimaraesi ² Linardi, 1978 hopkinsi ² Méndez, 1977 impavidus ² Johnson, 1957 litargus ² (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24] litus ² (Jordan & Rothschild, 1908) martinezbaezi ² Vargas, 1951 occidentalis occidentalis ² (Cuhna, 1914) [13] occidentalis steganus ² (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) [24] odiosus ² Smit, 1958 platensis (Jordan & Rothschild, 1908) peronis ² (Jordan & Rothschild, 1923) puelche ² (Del Ponte, 1963) rimatus (Jordan, 1932) (Figure 24) roberti beebei (Fox, 1947) roberti roberti ² (Rothschild, 1905) roberti tripopsis ² Guimarães, 1948 rozeboomi ² Vargas, 1952 trapidoi mendezi ² Smit, 1987 trapidoi trapidoi ² Méndez, 1977 tripus ² (Jordan, 1933) vazquezi ² Vargas, 1951	Presence in all taxa studied Smit (op. cit.)[35] shows no sclerotization for any of these species or subspeciesLinardi & Guimarães [27] note a “mancha escura” for: P. klagesi klagesi P. adelus P. atopus And a “mancha clara escamiforme” for P. tripus These are unciform sclerotizations recognizable on photographs (Figure 171, 211, 302 and 330 in Linardi & Guimarães, 2000) [27]

Monotypic genus.

Taxa not studied.

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