Species Colpocephalum berigorae Tendeiro, 1988

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• Colpocephalum berigorae Tendeiro, J. 1988. Études sur les Colpocephalum (Mallophaga, Menoponidae) parasites des Falconiformes I. Groupe zerafae Price & Beer. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 39(2/3): 77-102 [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, TAS.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 7♂ 10♀ (one ♀ labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Falco berigora tasmanica (Mathews, 1916)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, Tas: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Falco berigora melvillensis (Mathews, 1912) [FALCONIDAE] Brown Falcon; Falco berigora tasmanica (Mathews, 1916) [FALCONIDAE] Brown Falcon).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

History of changes