Species Colpocephalum aethiopicae Price & Beer, 1965

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• Colpocephalum aethiopicae Price, R.D. & Beer, J.R. 1965. The Colpocephalum (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) of the Ciconiiformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58(1): 111-131 [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1954–222 ♂, Hutuna, Rennell Is., Solomon Ils.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 3♂ 4♀.

  Type host:

   Zosterops lateralis (Latham, 1801) [ZOSTEROPIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), 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), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Threskiornis molucca (Cuvier, 1829) [THRESKIORNITHIDAE] Australian White Ibis).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

History of changes