Species Conopophila (Lacustroica) whitei (North, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lacustroica whitei North, A.J. 1910. Description of a new genus and species of honey-eater from Western Australia. Victorian Naturalist 26(9): 138-139 [Date published 13 Jan 1910] [138].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV HLW.3525 adult ♀, WA: East Murchison; NMV HLW.3536 adult ♀, WA: East Murchison; NMV HLW.3527 juvenile unsexed, WA: East Murchison; NMV HLW.3528 adult ♂, WA: East Murchison.
• Lacustroica inconspicua North, A.J. 1910. Description of a new genus and species of honey-eater from Western Australia. Victorian Naturalist 26(9): 138-139 [Date published 13 Jan 1910] [139] [published 13 January 1910; alternative name for simultaneously published Lacustroica whitei North, 1910, and treated as a junior synonym ever since: e.g. Mathews, Novit. Zool. 18 (1912: 171-446)].
• Lacustroica alfredi Campbell, A.J. 1910. Western Australian Birds. The Emu 9(3): 165-166 [Date published Jan 1910] [166] [nomen nudum, published 1 January 1910; not made available by introduction into synonym of this species by Mathews, List Birds Australia (1913)269: ICdZN Art. 11.5,6].
• Lacustroica whitei neglecta Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [62].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, eremic riverine woodland, mulga woodland.

 

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Grey Honeyeater)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)