Species Colpocephalum impressum Rudow, 1866

Museums

Regional Maps

• Colpocephalum impressum Rudow, F. 1866. Charakteristik neuer Federlinge. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle N.F. 2 27(6): 465-477 [746].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMH ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMH 7♂ 6♀ (paratype series split between ZMH, BMNH); BMNH 7♂ 6♀ (paralectotype series split between ZMH, BMNH).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1955. Notes on the Rudow Collection of Mallophaga at Hamburg. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 53: 49-73 [52].

  Type host:

   Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus, 1758)

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): Aquila audax (Latham, 1801) [ACCIPITRIDAE] Wedge-tailed Eagle).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Price, R.D. & Beer, J.R. 1963. Species of Colpocephalum (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) parasitic upon the Falconiformes. The Canadian Entomologist 95(7): 731-763 [746] (systematics, illustrations, Australian record)

History of changes