Species Austromenopon atrofulvum (Piaget, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Menopon atrofulvum Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [483].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 662a ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ 3♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. 1949. Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 2: 811-838, 895-921 [819].

  Type host:

   Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758 [THRESKIORNITHIDAE]

  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. [47].
• Actornithophilus leucopterus Touleshkov, K. 1959. Two new mallophag species on the species of the larine family. Compte Rendu de l'Académie Bulgare des Sciences 12(6): 557-559 [557].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown 353/6/I ♂, near Chelopechene, east of Sofia, Bulgaria.
  Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown 3♂ 3♀ 4 juveniles (one ♀ labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815) [LARIDAE]
• Austromenopon caspiae Zlotorzycka, J. 1968. Systematische Studien an den mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattung Austromenopon Bedf. (Mallophaga, Austromenoponinae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 38(2): 301-340 [311].

  Type data:

   Holotype UWP 43/e/79 ♂, Hodonin, Czechoslovakia.
  Paratype(s) UWP 3♂ 9♀.

  Type host:

   Sterna caspia Pallas, 1770 [LARIDAE]

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. [31]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, 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), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), 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), 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)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Anous minutus Boie, 1844 [LARIDAE] Black Noddy; Sterna caspia Pallas, 1770 [LARIDAE] Caspian Tern; Thalasseus bergii (Lichtenstein, 1823) [LARIDAE] Crested Tern; Sterna bengalensis Lesson, 1831 [LARIDAE] Lesser Crested Tern; Chlidonias hybridus (Pallas, 1811) [LARIDAE] Whiskered Tern; Sterna striata Gmelin, 1789 [LARIDAE] White-fronted Tern; Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815) [LARIDAE] White-winged Black Tern).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1959. Key to the species of Austromenopon Bedford (Mallophaga) parasitic on the Charadriiformes. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London B 28(11–12): 157-168 (systematics, illustrations)

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 [4] (Australian records)

Palma, R.L. in Palma, R.L. & Barker, S.C. 1996. Phthiraptera. pp. 81-247, 333-361, 373-376 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 26. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xiii 418 pp. (the type host is not a natural host for this species, which is regularly found parasitising members of the subfamily Sterninae)

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