Species Ardeicola expallidus Blagoveshtchensky, 1940

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• Ardeicola expallida Blagoveshtchensky, D.I. 1940. Mallophaga from birds of the Talysh lowlands. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik Moscow & Leningrad 8: 25-90 [in Russian, with English summary] [69, 89] [species epithet emended to expallidus by Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [39]].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 2♂ 3♀ 10 juveniles, Kumbashi, Talysh Lowlands, Azerbaijan.

  Type host:

   Egretta garzetta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766)

  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.
• Ardeicola gaibagla Ansari, M.A.R. 1947. Mallophaga (Ischnocera) infesting birds in the Punjab (India). Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India 13(6): 253-303 [256].

  Type data:

   Holotype EPAL MI-139 ♀, Lyallpur, Pakistan (as India).
  Paratype(s) EPAL 3♂ (one ♂ labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Ardea ibis Linnaeus, 1758
• Ardeicola albulus Eichler, W. 1948. Schutzfärbung bei Federlingen. Vögel der Heimat no. 6. 103-108 pp. [107].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀ juvenile, locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tuff, D.W. 1970. A new synonym of Ardeicola expallida Blagoveshtchensky (Mallophaga: Philopteridae). Journal of Medical Entomology 7(4): 484 [484]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Ardea ibis Linnaeus, 1758 [ARDEIDAE] Cattle Egret; Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758 [ARDEIDAE] Great Egret; Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) [ARDEIDAE] Little Egret).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Green, R.H. & Palma, R.L. 1991. A list of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) recorded from Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 100: 1-43 [11] (Australian record)

History of changes