Species Eidmanniella albescens (Piaget, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Menopon albescens Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [491].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 663a ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 3♂.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. 1949. Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 2: 811-838, 895-921 [816].

  Type locality references:

  Ryan, S.R. & Price, R.D. 1969. A review of the genus Eidmanniella (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from the Pelecaniformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 62(4): 815-823 [822] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Anthus novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1789) [MOTACILLIDAE]

  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. [129].
• Eidmanniella sula Tendeiro, J. 1958. Études sur les Mallophages. Sur une nouvelle espèce du genre Eidmanniella von Kéler 1938 (Amblycera, Menoponidae), parasite de Sula leucogaster leucogaster (Boddaert) et Sula leucogaster plotus Forster. Garcia de Orta. Serie de Zoologia. Lisboa 6(3): 443-449 [443].

  Type data:

   Holotype CZL 270 ♂, Pedra da Galé, São Tomé and Príncipe, Africa.
  Paratype(s) CZL 5♂ 4♀ (one ♀ labelled as allotype); BMNH 3♂ 4♀ juvenile.

  Type host:

   Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ryan, S.R. & Price, R.D. 1969. A review of the genus Eidmanniella (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from the Pelecaniformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 62(4): 815-823 [822]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, 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)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) [SULIDAE] Brown Booby; Sula dactylatra Lesson, 1831 [SULIDAE] Masked Booby).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Ryan, S.R. & Price, R.D. 1969. A review of the genus Eidmanniella (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from the Pelecaniformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 62(4): 815-823 [822] (systematics, illustrations)

History of changes