Gyropus cercomydis Werneck, 1942 Gyropus cercomydis Werneck 1942: 25, fig. 4 (female head, dorso-ventral view), fig. 8 (detail of the endomeres and mesomeral plate), fig. 21 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 22 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 23 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 24 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view). Type locality: Brazil, Bahia, Xiquexique, Rio São Francisco. Type host: Cercomys laurentius (= Thrichomys a. laurenteus (Thomas)). Typology: Holotype male, ‘allotype’ female and two female paratypes held by FIOC. One male and one female paratype in alcohol, vial 209 in support 21, at FIOC. Hopkins and Clay 1952: 160 (checklist). Emerson, and Price 1981: 44 (host-parasite checklist). Cicchino and Castro 1990: 322 (checklist of Gyropus species on Echimyidae). Cardoso-de-Almeida et al. 2003: 235 (list of type material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz). Price et al. 2003: 76 (checklist). Eogyropus cercomydis, Eichler 1952: 76 (replacement of genus). Distribution. BRAZIL (Bahia). Host. Thrichomys apereoides laurenteus (Echimyidae).

Published as part of Valim, Michel P. & Linardi, Pedro Marcos, 2008, A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae), pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 1899 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274532