Species Brueelia daumae (Clay, 1936)

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• Degeeriella zootherae daumae Clay, T. 1936. New species of Mallophaga recorded from Asiatic birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1935: 905-914 pls 1-2 [910].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2712 ♂ ♀, Himalayas.

  Type host:

   Zoothera dauma (Latham, 1790)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Zoothera (Zoothera) lunulata (Latham, 1801) [TURDIDAE] Bassian Thrush).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Ansari, M.A.R. 1956. Studies on Bruelia species (Mallophaga) occurring on true thrushes. Biologia (Lahore) 2: 102-143 [116] (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 [11] (Australian record)

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