Species Haffneria grandis (Piaget, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lipeurus grandis Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [323].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Rotterdam Zoo.

  Type locality references:

  Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [277] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Hydrobates pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Perineus antarcticus Carriker, M.A. 1958. Neotropical Mallophaga miscellany No. 7. New Mallophaga from the Antarctic. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 15: 183-188 [186].

  Type data:

   Holotype IMLA juvenile (originally described as adult ♀), King George Is., South Shetland Ils.
  Paratype(s) IMLA juvenile.

  Type host:

   Catharacta maccormicki (Saunders, 1893)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clay, T. & Moreby, C. 1967. Mallophaga (biting lice) and Anoplura (sucking lice). Part 2: Keys and locality lists of Mallophaga and Anoplura. 10. pp. 157–196 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.) Antarctic Research Series. Washington D.C. : American Geophysical Union. [162]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr., Heard Is., Macquarie Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Stercorarius skua lonnbergi (Mathews, 1912) [LARIDAE] Great Skua; Stercorarius maccormicki Saunders, 1893 [LARIDAE] South Polar Skua).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

General References

Clay, T. & Moreby, C. 1967. Mallophaga (biting lice) and Anoplura (sucking lice). Part 2: Keys and locality lists of Mallophaga and Anoplura. 10. pp. 157–196 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.) Antarctic Research Series. Washington D.C. : American Geophysical Union. (systematics, illustrations)

Dreux, P. 1978. La faune entomologique de l'Île Heard. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 83(5–6): 108-115 [110] (Australian record)

Schaefer, P.W. & Strandtmann, R.W. 1971. Notes on the incidence and niche preference of Mallophaga and Analgoidea ectoparasitic on South polar skua (Catharacta skua maccormicki on Ross Island, Antarctica. Pacific Insects Monographs 25: 15-16 (ecology)

Watson, K.C. 1967. The terrestrial Arthropoda of Macquarie Island. ANARE Scientific Reports Series B(1) Zoology 99: 1-90 pls 1-12 [72] (Australian record)

 

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