Strigiphilus

Strigiphilus is a genus of chewing louse in the suborder Ischnocera. It was circumscribed in 1910 by Eric Mjöberg.^[1]

Strigiphilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Psocodea
Infraorder:	Phthiraptera
Family:	Philopteridae
Genus:	Strigiphilus Mjöberg, 1910[1]
Type species
Docophorus heterocerus Grube, 1851
Synonyms[1]
Eichlerius Złotorzycka, 1974[2] Eustrigiphilus Ewing, 1926[3] Neodocophorus Kéler [de], 1939[4] Tytoniella Eichler [de], 1949[5]

Taxonomic history

Mjöberg initially circumscribed Strigiphilus as a subgenus of the genus he referred to as Docophorus^[6] (now known as Philopterus).

In a 1966 paper, Theresa Clay recognized 29 species and grouped them into the following nine species groups:^[7]

• Strigiphilus rostratus (Burmeister, 1838) group
• Strigiphilus heterocerus (Grube, 1851) group
• Strigiphilus cursor (Burmeister, 1838) group
• Strigiphilus crenulatus (Giebel, 1874) group
• Strigiphilus macrogenitalis Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
• Strigiphilus strigis (Pontoppidan, 1763) group
• Strigiphilus siamensis Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
• Strigiphilus ketupae Emerson & Elbel, 1957 group
• Strigiphilus cursitans (Nitzsch, 1861) group

The largest group is the S. curstans group.^[8]

Hosts

Strigiphilus is the only genus of Ischnocera to exclusively parasitize owls.^[9]: 340

Species

As of 2017^[update], there are approximately fifty species of Strigiphilus.^[1] Species include:

• Strigiphilus garylarsoni Clayton, 1990^[8] (cursitans group)