Harpyrhynchoides brevis (Ewing, 1911)

(Fig. 39 B)

Harpirhynchus brevis Ewing, 1911: 38; Fain 1995: 99 (type lost). Harpyrhynchus brevis, Moss 1979: 381 .

Harpyrhynchoides brevis, Bochkov & Klompen 2014b: 406, figs. 1, 2.

Hosts and distribution. Coccothraustes vespertinus (Cooper) [type host] and Loxia curvirostra Linnaeus ( Passeriformes: Fringillidae) from USA (various localities) (Ewing 1911; Moss 1979; Bochkov & Klompen 2014b).

Remarks. Banks (1905a) described Harpirhynchus longipilus Banks, 1905 (= Sarcopterus longipilis Banks, 1905b) from Loxia sp. ( Passeriformes: Fringillidae) from Washington, USA. The only species of the genus Loxia occurring in Washington is Loxia curvirostra (Clements et al. 2014) . The original description of this species is incomplete and does not allow differentiating this species confidently from other representatives of the genus (Fain 1995). The record of H. brevis from Loxia curvirostra makes the conspecificity of these two species highly probable and, thus, H. brevis could be a junior synonym of H. longipilus . It is necessary, however, to obtain a new material from Loxia curvirostra from the locality to resolve this question.

The record of this species on Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus) ( Passeriformes: Icteridae) from USA (Morly & Shillinger 1937) should been assigned to Harpyrhynchoides zumpti (Fain, 1972) (Bochkov & Klompen 2014b). A record of this species from Catharus fuscescens (Stephens) ( Passeriformes: Turdidae) from USA (Morley & Shillinger 1937), probably belongs to H. zumpti or Harpyrhynchoides heatherae Bochkov and Galloway, 2013 .