Species Eomenopon concinnae Price & Emerson, 1982

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• Eomenopon concinnae Price, R.D. & Emerson, K.C. 1982. A new species of Eomenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from Tasmania. Pacific Insects 24(2): 189-191 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype QVM 398 ♂, Launceston, TAS.
  Paratype(s) QVM 7♂ 20♀ (paratype series split between QVM, USNM, BMNH, BPBM, OSUS, EFWM); USNM 7♂ 20♀ (paratype series split between QVM, USNM, BMNH, BPBM, OSUS, EFWM); BMNH 7♂ 20♀ (paratype series split between QVM, USNM, BMNH, BPBM, OSUS, EFWM); BPBM 7♂ 20♀ (paratype series split between QVM, USNM, BMNH, BPBM, OSUS, EFWM); OSUS 7♂ 20♀ (paratype series split between QVM, USNM, BMNH, BPBM, OSUS, EFWM); EFWM 7♂ 20♀ (paratype series split between QVM, USNM, BMNH, BPBM, OSUS, EFWM).

  Type host:

   Glossopsitta concinna (Shaw, 1791)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Glossopsitta concinna (Shaw, 1791) [PSITTACIDAE] Musk Lorikeet).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

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
19-Jul-2012		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED