Subspecies Aphelocephala leucopsis leucopsis (Gould, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xerophila leucopsis Gould, J. 1841. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Dec. 8, 1840. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840: 168-178 [Date published Jul 1841: publication dated 1840] [175].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 9409 ♂, SA: Adelaide [34°56'S, 138°36'E].

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [222].
• Aphelocephala leucopsis pallida Mathews, G.M. 1911. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 27(167): 62 [Date published 3 Mar 1911] [62].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 683430 Unsexed (For possible paratype see discussion in LeCroy (2008): 182), SA: Leigh Creek [30°31'S, 138°25'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [182].
• Aphelocephala leucopsis missa Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [377].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 683400 adult ♀, NSW: Narrandera, Murrumbidgee River [34°36'S, 146°34'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 683401 adult ♀, NSW: Narrandera, Murrumbidgee River [34°36'S, 146°34'E]; AMNH 683401 adult ♀, NSW: Narrandera, Murrumbidgee River [34°36'S, 146°34'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [182-183].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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 Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, chenopodiaceous steppe, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, temperate eucalypt.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	03-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)