Species Forficuloecus forficula (Piaget, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Docophorus forficula Piaget, E. 1871. Description de quelques parasites du genre. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 14: 113-137 2 pls [117].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 582 ♂, locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes). II. Genera Psittoecus Conci, 1942, and Forficuloecus Conci, 1941. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 28(9): 163-180 [174].

  Type locality references:

  Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes). II. Genera Psittoecus Conci, 1942, and Forficuloecus Conci, 1941. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 28(9): 163-180 [174] (for restriction of type host).

  Type host:

   Platycercus eximius (Shaw, 1792)

  Secondary source:

   Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes). II. Genera Psittoecus Conci, 1942, and Forficuloecus Conci, 1941. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 28(9): 163-180 [174].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, 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): Platycercus (Platycercus) elegans (Gmelin, 1788) [PSITT ACIDAE] Crimson Rosella; Platycercus (Violania) eximius (Shaw, 1792) [PSITTACIDAE] Eastern Rosella; Platycercus (Platycercus) caledonicus (Gmelin, 1788) [PSITTACIDAE] Green Rosella; Platycercus adscitus Latham, 1790 [PSITACIDAE] Pale-headed Rosella; Psephotus (Psephotus) haematonotus (Gould, 1838) [PSITTACIDAE] Red-rumped Parrot; Lathamus discolor (Shaw, 1790) [PSITTACIDAE] Swift Parrot).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Green, R.H. & Palma, R.L. 1991. A list of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) recorded from Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 100: 1-43 [14] (Australian records)

Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes). II. Genera Psittoecus Conci, 1942, and Forficuloecus Conci, 1941. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 28(9): 163-180 [174] (systematics, illustrations, Australian records)

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