Species Actornithophilus incisus (Piaget, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Colpocephalum incisum Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [569].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1286 ♂, Madagascar.

  Type locality references:

  Clay, T. 1953. Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 6: 641-657 [641] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Phaethon flavirostris Brandt, 1837 [PHAETHONTIDAE]

  Secondary source:

   Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [22].
• Colpocephalum epiphanes Kellogg, V.L. & Chapman, B.L. 1902. Mallophaga from birds of the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 10: 155-169 pls 13-15 [161].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) EMUC 3♀, Kahului, Maui Is., Hawai.

  Type host:

   Anous stolidus pileatus (Scopoli, 1786) [LARIDAE]
• Clypeodon pacificus Timmermann, G. 1955. Studien über Mallophagen aus den Sammlungen des Britischen Museums (Nat. Hist.), London. 3. Mitteilung. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 513-534 [534].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 8206 ♂, WA.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ 2♀.

  Type locality references:

  Clay, T. 1962. A key to the species of Actornithophilus Ferris with notes and descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11(5): 189-244 pls 4-11 [202] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Puffinus pacificus chlororhynchus Lesson, 1831 [PROCELLARIDAE]

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Emerson, K.C. 1972. Checklist of the Mallophaga of North America (North of Mexico). Suborder Amblycera. Dugway (Utah) : Deseret Test Center Part 2 118 pp. [17]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Anous stolidus pileatus (Scopoli, 1786) [LARIDAE] Common Noddy).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1962. A key to the species of Actornithophilus Ferris with notes and descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11(5): 189-244 pls 4-11 (systematics, illustrations)

Timmermann, G. 1955. Studien über Mallophagen aus den Sammlungen des Britischen Museums (Nat. Hist.), London. 3. Mitteilung. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 513-534 [534] (Australian record)

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