Species Austromenopon popellus (Piaget, 1890)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Menopon popellus Piaget, E. 1890. Quelques pédiculines nouvelles. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 33: 223-259 8 pls [251].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 830 ♂, locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Podica senegalensis (Vieillot, 1817) [PODICIPEDIDAE]

  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 [491].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Macquarie Is.*.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, 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)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Pterodroma macroptera (Smith, 1840) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Great-winged Petrel; Procellaria cinerea Gmelin, 1789 [PROCELLARIIDAE] Grey Petrel; Lugensa brevirostris (Lesson, 1833) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Kerguelen Petrel; Pterodroma inexpectata (Forster, 1844) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Mottled Petrel; Pterodroma solandri (Gould, 1844) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Providence Petrel; Pterodroma mollis (Gould, 1844) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Soft-plumaged Petrel; Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 [PROCELLARIIDAE] White-chinned Petrel; Pterodroma (Pterodroma) lessonii (Garnot, 1826) [PROCELLARIIDAE] White-headed Petrel).

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 [5] (Australian records)

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 [491] (systematics, illustrations, comment on authenticity of type host)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023	Phthiraptera	15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
28-Sep-2022	Phthiraptera	26-Jul-2023	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED