Species Goniocotes rectangulatus Nitzsch (in Giebel), 1866

Museums

Regional Maps

• Goniocotes rectangulatus 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 [389].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 3♀ (probably lost), locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Pavo cristatus 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. [149].
• Goniocotes rectangulus 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. [185] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Goniocotes rectangulatus Nitzsch (in Giebel), 1866].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Numida meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758) [NUMIDIDAE] Helmeted Guineafowl).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

General References

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 [18] (Australian record)

Kéler, S. von 1939. Baustoffe zu einer Monographie der Mallophagen. II. Teil: Überfamilie der Nirmoidea (1). Nova Acta Leopoldina N.F. 8(51): 1-254 pls 1-4 [146] (systematics, illustration)

 

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