Species Ibidoecus dianae Tandan, 1958

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• Ibidoecus dianae Tandan, B.K. 1958. Mallophaga (Insecta). Part II. A new species of Ibidoecus Cummings, 1916. Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands 2: 151-154 [151].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 618 ♂, Rennell Is., Solomon Ils.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 11♂ 13♀ many juveniles (♀ mounted with holotype labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Threskiornis molucca pygmaeus Mayr, 1931

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Threskiornis molucca (Cuvier, 1829) [THRESKIORNITHIDAE] Australian White Ibis).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1976. The species of Ibidoecus (Phthiraptera) on Threskiornis (Aves). Systematic Entomology 1: 1-7 [5] (systematics, host relationships)

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