Species Melithreptus (Melithreptus) lunatus (Vieillot, 1802)
White-naped Honeyeater
- Melithreptus albicollis Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 14. [Date published 13 Sep 1817] [325].
- Melithreptus albicapillus Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 14. [Date published 13 Sep 1817] [329].
- Certhia lunulata Shaw, G. 1812. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Aves. London : Kearsley, Wilkie & Robinson Vol. VIII Pt 2 vi pp. 244-557 pls 46-84. [Date published 1811] [224] [presumed unjustified emendation of Certhia lunata Vieillot, 1802].
- Meliphaga atricapilla Temminck, C.J. in Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1825. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux Planches enluminées de Buffon. 56 livr. in 5 vols. Paris : G. Levrault. [pl. 335] [rejected as junior secondary homonym in Melithreptus Vieillot, 1816, of Certhia atricapilla Latham, 1802 (suppressed for synonymy but not homonymy: ICmZN Opinion 792) by Mathews, Systema Avium Australasianarum 2(1930: 736) — so invalidated].
- Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [391].
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Melithreptus (Melithreptus) lunatus lunatus (Vieillot, 1802).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
- Victoria
Ecological Descriptors
Dry sclerophyll forest, human habitation, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, temperate eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.
General References
Dolman, G. & Joseph, L. 2015. Evolutionary history of birds across southern Australia: structure, history and taxonomic implications of mitochondrial DNA diversity in an ecologically diverse suite of species. Emu 115: 35–48 [45] (molecular data support full species status)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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27-Apr-2015 | PASSERIFORMES | 27-Apr-2015 | MOVED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
10-Nov-2020 | 30-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |