Species Cuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch (in Giebel), 1866)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lipeurus heterographus Nitzsch, C.L. in Giebel, C.G.A. 1866. Die im zoologischen Museum der Universität Halle aufgestellten Epizoen nebst Beobachtungen über dieselben. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle N.F. 2 28(11/12): 353-397 [381].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (probably lost), locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lipeurus pallidus Giebel, C.G.A. 1874. Insecta epizoa. Die auf Säugetieren und Vögeln schmarotzenden Insecten nach Chr. L. Nitzsch's Nachlass bearbeitet. Leipzig : O. Wiegand xvi 308 pp. pls 1-20. [219].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (probably lost), locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)

  Secondary source:

   Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [96].
• Cuclotogaster laticorpus Carriker, M.A. 1936. Studies in the neotropical Mallophaga, Part I. - Lice of the Tinamous. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 88: 45-218 pls 1-32 [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP ♀, El Callao, Venezuela.

  Type locality references:

  Emerson, K.C. 1967. Catalog of forms described as new by M.A. Carriker, Jr. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 248: 57-150 [76] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Crypturellus soui Hermann, 1783

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [95, 96]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced.

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): Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) [PHASIANIDAE] Red Junglefowl).

Extra Ecological Information

Record from Dromaius novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) listed by <0195> [2] is a contaminant (<8217>), feather-feeder.

 

General References

Conci, C. 1952. L'allevamento in condizioni sperimentali dei Mallofagi. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Instituti Biologici della Università di Genova 24(150): 17-40 (life history)

Emerson, K.C. 1956. Mallophaga (chewing lice) occurring on the domestic chicken. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 29(2): 63-79 [64] (systematics)

Johnston, T.H. & Harrison, L. 1912. A list of Mallophaga found on introduced and domesticated animals in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 24: 17-22 [17] (Australian records)

Martín-Mateo, M.P. 1990. Contribución al conocimiento de los malófagos parásitos de aves en la Isla de Tenerife (Mallophaga: Insecta). Vieraea 19: 175-184 [179] (illustrations)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023	Phthiraptera	15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
28-Sep-2022	Phthiraptera	26-Jul-2023	MODIFIED
18-Apr-2016	PHILOPTERIDAE	15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED