Species Menacanthus dennisi Price & Emerson, 1988

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• Menacanthus dennisi Price, R.D. & Emerson, K.C. 1988. Menacanthus dennisi (Mallophaga: Menoponidae ), a new species from the grey currawong (Passeriformes: Cracticidae) in South Australia. Florida Entomologist 71(2): 202-204 [202].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Kangaroo Is., SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 25♂ 35♀ (paratype series split between SAMA, USNM, OSUS, EFWM, FSCA); USNM 25♂ 35♀ (paratype series split between SAMA, USNM, OSUS, EFWM, FSCA); OSUS 25♂ 35♀ (paratype series split between SAMA, USNM, OSUS, EFWM, FSCA); EFWM 25♂ 35♀ (paratype series split between SAMA, USNM, OSUS, EFWM, FSCA); FSCA 25♂ 35♀ (paratype series split between SAMA, USNM, OSUS, EFWM, FSCA).

  Type host:

   Aquila audax (Latham, 1801) [ACCIPITRIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Strepera versicolor (Latham, 1801) [ARTAMIDAE] Grey Currawong).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

History of changes