Species Austrogoniodes waterstoni (Cummings, 1914)

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• Goniocotes waterstoni Cummings, B.F. 1914. Descriptions of five new species of Anoplura and Mallophaga. Bulletin of Entomological Research 5(2): 155-177 [173].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ (number of specimens of each sex unspecified), Furneaux Ils, TAS.

  Type host:

   Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) [SPHENISCIDAE] Little Penguin).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1967. Mallophaga (biting lice) and Anoplura (sucking lice). Part 1: Austrogoniodes (Mallophaga) parasitic on penguins (Sphenisciformes). 10. pp. 149–155 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.) Antarctic Research Series. Washington D.C. : American Geophysical Union. [152, 155] (systematics, distribution)

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)

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