Species Echinophilopterus forficuloides (Piaget, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Docophorus forficuloides Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [72].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 589 ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH juvenile.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Guimarães, L.R. 1980. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes) IV. Genus Echinophilopterus Ewing, 1927. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 33(6): 127-156 [139].

  Type locality references:

  Guimarães, L.R. 1980. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes) IV. Genus Echinophilopterus Ewing, 1927. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 33(6): 127-156 [139] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  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. [128].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Host record only.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788) [CACATUIDAE] Palm Cockatoo).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

General References

Guimarães, L.R. 1980. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes) IV. Genus Echinophilopterus Ewing, 1927. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 33(6): 127-156 [139] (systematics, illustrations)

Thompson, G.B. & Plomley, N.J.B. 1938. A list of the insect ectoparasites recorded from Australian birds and mammals. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 105-127 [115] (listed for Australia)

 

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