Species Austromenopon brevifimbriatum (Piaget, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Menopon brevifimbriatum Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [499].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 705a ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ 3♀; RMNH ♂ ♀.

  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 [820].

  Type host:

   Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761) [PROCELLARIDAE]

  Secondary source:

   Price, R.D. & Clay T. 1972. A review of the genus Austromenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from the Procellariiformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65(2): 457-504 [494].
• Procellariphaga daptionis Eichler, W. 1949. Notulae Mallophagologicae. XV. Sturmvogel-Federlinge. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 9(3): 337-347 [344].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH WEC-449 ♂ ♀, South Georgia Ils.

  Type host:

   Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758) [PROCELLARIDAE]
• Austromenopon oschei Timmermann, G. 1963. Gruppen-Revisionen bei Mallophagen. VI. Die Austromenopon-Arten der Sturmvögel. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 22: 401-427 [412].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1960–688 ♂, Stanley, Falkland Ils.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ 3♀ (one ♀ labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788) [CACATUIDAE]

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Price, R.D. & Clay T. 1972. A review of the genus Austromenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from the Procellariiformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65(2): 457-504 [494]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Thalassoica antarctica (Gmelin, 1789) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Antarctic Petrel; Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Cape Petrel; Fulmarus glacialoides (A. Smith, 1840) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Southern Fulmar).

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 [4] (Australian record)

Price, R.D. & Clay T. 1972. A review of the genus Austromenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from the Procellariiformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65(2): 457-504 [494] (systematics, distribution, illustrations)

History of changes