Species Parapsyllus australiacus Rothschild, 1909

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• Parapsyllus australiacus Rothschild, N.C. 1909. On some American, Australian and Palearctic Siphonaptera. Novitates Zoologicae 16: 61-68 [62].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Bird Is., near Perth, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Smit, F.G.A.M. & Wright, A.M. 1978. A Catalogue of the Primary Type Specimens of Siphonaptera in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum (Natural History) 71 pp. [7].

  Type host:

   Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) [SPHENISCIDAE] (as Eudyptula minor)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal regions of southern mainland Australia and TAS and islands along the coast.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) [SPHENISCIDAE] Little Penguin; Thalassarche cauta cauta (Gould, 1841) [DIOMEDEIDAE] Shy Albatross (in nest); Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) [LARIDAE] Silver Gull; Larus (Larus) pacificus Latham, 1801 [LARIDAE] Pacific Gull; Pachyptila turtur (Kuhl, 1820) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Fairy Prion; Pelagodroma marina (Latham, 1790) [OCEANITIDAE] White-faced Storm-petrel; Ardenna tenuirostris (Temminck, 1835) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Short-tailed Shearwater; Antechinus minimus (Geoffroy, 1803) [DASYURIDAE] Swamp Antechinus; Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat; Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) [MURIDAE] Black Rat), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Preferred hosts nests of burrowing petrels and penguins (on the Bass Strait islands).

 

General References

Jordan, K. 1942. On Parapsyllus and some closely related genera of Siphonaptera. Environmental Entomology 18: 7-29 [19] (as Parapsyllus longicornis australiacus)

Jordan, K. & Rothschild, N.C. 1908. Revision of the non-combed eyed Siphonaptera. Parasitology 1: 1-100 [85] (misidentified Parapsyllus australiacus as Parapsyllus longicornis)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)