Species Goniodes fissus (Rudow, 1869)

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• Goniocotes fissus Rudow, F. 1869. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Mallophagen oder Pelzfresser. Neue exotische Arten der Familie Philopterus. Dissertation Universität Leipzig 47 pp. [23].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMH ♂, Australia (as New Holland).
  Paralectotype(s) ZMH ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1955. Notes on the Rudow Collection of Mallophaga at Hamburg. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 53: 49-73 [58].

  Type host:

   Alectura lathami lathami J.E. Gray, 1831

  Secondary source:

   Johnston, T.H. & Harrison, L. 1912. A census of Australian Mallophaga. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 24: 1-15 [2]; Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [153].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Alectura lathami lathami J.E. Gray, 1831 [MEGAPODIIDAE] Australian Brush-turkey; Alectura lathami purpureicollis (Le Souëf, 1898) [MEGAPODIIDAE] Australian Brush-turkey).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

General References

Clay, T. 1940. A revision of the genera and species of Mallophaga occurring on Gallinaceous hosts. Part II. Goniodes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London B 110: 1-120 [110] (systematics, illustrations, Australian records)

 

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