Species Colpocephalum fregili Denny, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Colpocephalum fregili Denny, H. 1842. Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniae. London : Henry G. Bohn xxiv 262 pp. pls 1-26. [198, 208].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Isle of Man, Great Britain.

  Type host:

   Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Colpocephalum trimaculatum Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [525].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1069 ♂, Rotterdam Zoo.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2♂ 3♀; RMNH ♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. 1953. Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 6: 641-657 [655].

  Type locality references:

  Clay, T. 1953. Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 6: 641-657 [655] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Platycercus adscitus palliceps Lear, 1832

  Secondary source:

   Price, R.D. & Beer, J.R. 1965. A review of the Colpocephalum of the Corvidae with the description of a new species (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 67(1): 7-14 [8].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Price, R.D. & Beer, J.R. 1965. A review of the Colpocephalum of the Corvidae with the description of a new species (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 67(1): 7-14 [7]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Corvus coronoides Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 [CORVIDAE] Australian Raven; Corvus tasmanicus Mathews, 1912 [CORVIDAE] Forest Raven; Corvus bennelli North, 1901 [CORVIDAE] Little Crow; Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 [CORVIDAE] Little Raven).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Green, R.H. & Palma, R.L. 1991. A list of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) recorded from Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 100: 1-43 [5] (Australian record)

Price, R.D. & Beer, J.R. 1965. A review of the Colpocephalum of the Corvidae with the description of a new species (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 67(1): 7-14 [7] (systematics, illustrations, Australian record)

History of changes