Species Melithreptus (Melithreptus) lunatus (Vieillot, 1802)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Certhia lunata Vieillot, L.P. 1802. Oiseaux dores au a reflets metalliques. (published in 32 parts). Paris Vol. 2. [95].
• Melithreptus albicollis Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 14. [Date published 13 Sep 1817] [325].
• Melithreptus albicapillus Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 14. [Date published 13 Sep 1817] [329].
• Certhia lunulata Shaw, G. 1812. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Aves. London : Kearsley, Wilkie & Robinson Vol. VIII Pt 2 vi pp. 244-557 pls 46-84. [Date published 1811] [224] [presumed unjustified emendation of Certhia lunata Vieillot, 1802].
• Meliphaga atricapilla Temminck, C.J. in Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1825. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux Planches enluminées de Buffon. 56 livr. in 5 vols. Paris : G. Levrault. [pl. 335] [rejected as junior secondary homonym in Melithreptus Vieillot, 1816, of Certhia atricapilla Latham, 1802 (suppressed for synonymy but not homonymy: ICmZN Opinion 792) by Mathews, Systema Avium Australasianarum 2(1930: 736) — so invalidated].
• Melliphaga torquata Swainson, W. 1822. Zoological Illustrations; or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting Animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists. Series 1. London : Baldwin, Cradock & Joy Vol. 3 pls 84-134. [pl. 129].
• Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [391].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Melithreptus (Melithreptus) lunatus lunatus (Vieillot, 1802).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, human habitation, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, temperate eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

General References

Dolman, G. & Joseph, L. 2015. Evolutionary history of birds across southern Australia: structure, history and taxonomic implications of mitochondrial DNA diversity in an ecologically diverse suite of species. Emu 115: 35–48 [45] (molecular data support full species status)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
27-Apr-2015	PASSERIFORMES	27-Apr-2015	MOVED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)