Campanulotes

Campanulotes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Phthiraptera or Goniodidae (disputed)
Suborder:	Ischnocera
Family:	Philopteridae
Genus:	Campanulotes Kéler 1939
Species
Campanulotes bidentatus Campanulotes campanulatus Campanulotes defectus Campanulotes durdeni Campanulotes elegans Campanulotes flavus Campanulotes frenatus Campanulotes sp. Saussurites JDW-2010
Synonyms
Nitzschielloides

Campanulotes is a genus of lice in the disputed, probably paraphyletic, family Philopteridae, the chewing lice, or in the family Goniodidae.

It is mostly a genus of parasites on birds.

Some species in the genus may have been cases of coextinction. The species Campanulotes defectus was thought to have been unique to the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), an extinct bird from North America, but is now believed to have been a case of a contaminated specimen, as the species is considered to be the still-extant Campanulotes flavus of Australia.

Known species of ectoparasites of the common rock dove include Campanulotes bidentatus compar.

References

• Pigeon lice down under: Taxonomy of Australian Campanulotes (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae), with a description of C. durdeni N. Sp. Roger D. Price, Dale H. Clayton, and Richard J. Adams, Journal of Parasitology: October 2000, Vol. 86, No. 5, pages 948-950 doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0948:PLDUTO2.0.CO;2]

External links

• "Campanulotes" at the Encyclopedia of Life