Species Brueelia menuraelyrae (Coinde, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nirmus menuraelyrae Coinde, J.P. 1859. Notes pour servir à l'histoire des épizoiques. Description de quelques espèces nouvelles appartenant aux genres: Docophorus, Nirmus, Lipeurus, etc. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 32(4): 418-427 [424] [as Nirmus menurae-lyrae].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Menura novaehollandiae Latham, 1801
• Nirmus submarginellus Nitzsch, C.L. in Giebel, C.G.A. 1866. Die im zoologischen Museum der Universität Halle aufgestellten Epizoen nebst Beobachtungen über dieselben. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle N.F. 2 28(11/12): 353-397 [368].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (probably lost), locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Menura novaehollandiae Latham, 1801
• Docophorus paraboliceps Piaget, E. 1890. Quelques pédiculines nouvelles. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 33: 223-259 8 pls [224] [junior secondary homonym of Nirmus paraboliceps Piaget, 1880].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Menura novaehollandiae Latham, 1801

  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. [60].
• Nirmus menura Le Souëf, S.A. & Bullen, H. 1902. Descriptions of some Mallophaga from Australian birds. Victorian Naturalist 18: 155-158 1 pl. [157].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, VIC.

  Type host:

   Menura novaehollandiae Latham, 1801
• Degeeriella submarginalis Johnston, T.H. & Harrison, L. 1912. A census of Australian Mallophaga. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 24: 1-15 [11] [unintentional nom. nov. for Nirmus submarginellus Nitzsch (in Giebel), 1866].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [58-62]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, 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), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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), 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), 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): Menura novaehollandiae Latham, 1801 [MENURIDAE] Superb Lyrebird).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

General References

Johnston, T.H. & Harrison, L. 1912. A census of Australian Mallophaga. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 24: 1-15 [11] (listed for Australia)

 

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
18-Apr-2016	PHILOPTERIDAE	15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED