Species Campanulotes elegans (Tendeiro, 1978)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Saussurites flavus elegans Tendeiro, J. 1978. Estudos sobre os goniodídeos (Mallophaga, Ischnocera) dos Columbiformes. XVII - Novas observações sobre os géneros Campanulotes Kéler, Saussurites Tendeiro e Stephanius Tendeiro. Garcia de Orta. Serie de Zoologia. Lisboa zool. 7(1–2): 115-124 pls 1-6 [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1971–449 ♂, King Is., TAS.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 4♀ (one ♀ labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Phaps elegans (Temminck, 1810)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), 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), 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), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Phaps elegans (Temminck, 1810) [COLUMBIDAE] Brush Bronzewing).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Price,R.D., Clayton, D.H. & Adams, R.J. 2000. Pigeon lice down under: taxonomy of Australian Campanulotes (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae), with a description of C. durdeni n. sp. Journal of Parasitology 86(5): 948-950 [949] (elevated to species)

Tendeiro, J. 1978. Estudos sobre os goniodídeos (Mallophaga, Ischnocera) dos Columbiformes. XVII - Novas observações sobre os géneros Campanulotes Kéler, Saussurites Tendeiro e Stephanius Tendeiro. Garcia de Orta. Serie de Zoologia. Lisboa zool. 7(1–2): 115-124 pls 1-6 (illustrations)

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