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Species Forficuloecus forficula (Piaget, 1871)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Platycercus (Platycercus) elegans (Gmelin, 1788) [PSITT ACIDAE] Crimson Rosella; Platycercus (Violania) eximius (Shaw, 1792) [PSITTACIDAE] Eastern Rosella; Platycercus (Platycercus) caledonicus (Gmelin, 1788) [PSITTACIDAE] Green Rosella; Platycercus adscitus Latham, 1790 [PSITACIDAE] Pale-headed Rosella; Psephotus (Psephotus) haematonotus (Gould, 1838) [PSITTACIDAE] Red-rumped Parrot; Lathamus discolor (Shaw, 1790) [PSITTACIDAE] Swift Parrot).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023 Phthiraptera 15-Sep-2023 MODIFIED Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
28-Sep-2022 Phthiraptera 26-Jul-2023 MODIFIED
18-Apr-2016 PHILOPTERIDAE 15-Sep-2023 MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012 15-Sep-2023 MODIFIED
15-Sep-2023 MODIFIED