Species Menacanthus eurysternus (Burmeister, 1838)

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• Menopon eurysternum Burmeister, H.C.C. 1838. Mallophaga. pp. 418–443 in, Handbuch der Entomologie Bd 2, Pt 1. Berlin : Enslin. [439].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (probably lost), locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Pica pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Menopon spinosum Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [449].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 859 ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ 7♀; RMNH ♂ 2♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. 1949. Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 2: 811-838, 895-921 [915].

  Type host:

   Circus approximans Peale, 1848 [ACCIPITRIDAE]

  Secondary source:

   Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [215].
• Menacanthus mutabilis Blagoveshtchensky, D.I. 1940. Mallophaga from birds of the Talysh lowlands. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik Moscow & Leningrad 8: 25-90 [in Russian, with English summary] [31, 78].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ 4♀ 3 juveniles, Kumbashi, Talysh Lowlands, Azerbaijan.

  Type host:

   Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758
• Menacanthus minusculus Blagoveshtchensky, D.I. 1940. Mallophaga from birds of the Talysh lowlands. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik Moscow & Leningrad 8: 25-90 [in Russian, with English summary] [36, 81].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Kumbashi, Talysh Lowlands, Azerbaijan.

  Type host:

   Turdus philomelos philomelos Brehm, 1831
• Menacanthus pius Eichler, W. & Zlotorzycka, J. 1963. Fünf neue Menacanthus-Arten aus Mitteleuropäischen singvögeln. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 23: 367-375 [369].

  Type data:

   Holotype UWP JZ14/e/11–1 ♀, locality unknown.
  Paratype(s) UWP 3♂ 37♀ 3 juveniles (one ♂ labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Pelecanus conspicillatus Temminck, 1824 [PELECANIDAE]

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Price, R.D. 1975. The Menacanthus eurysternus complex (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) of the Passeriformes and Piciformes (Aves). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 68(4): 617-622 [617]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), 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), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Serinus canaria (Linnaeus, 1758) [FRINGILLIDAE] Canary; Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 [MUSCICAPIDAE] Common Blackbird; Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 [STURNIDAE] Common Starling; Melanodryas vittata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) [PETROICIDAE] Dusky Robin; Colluricincla harmonica (Latham, 1801) [PACHYCEPHALIDAE] Grey Shrike-thrush; Phylidonyris novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) [MELIPHAGIDAE] New Holland Honeyeater; Pachycephala olivacea Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 [PACHYCEPHALIDAE] Olive Whistler; Anthochaera carunculata (Shaw, 1790) [MELIPHAGIDAE] Red Wattlebird; Zosterops lateralis (Latham, 1801) [TIMALIIDAE] Silvereye).

Extra Ecological Information

Blood-feeder and feather-feeder.

General References

Agarwal, G.P., Saxena, A.K. & Chandra, S. 1983. Haematophagous behaviour of Menacanthus eurysternus (Mallophaga, Amblycera). Angewandte Parasitologie 24: 55-59 (haematophagy)

Chandra, S., Agarwal, G.P., Singh, S.P.N. & Saxena, A.K. 1990. Seasonal changes in a population of Menacanthus eurysternus (Mallophaga, Amblycera) on the common myna Acridotheres tristis. International Journal for Parasitology 20(8): 1063-1065 (ecology)

Green, R.H. & Palma, R.L. 1991. A list of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) recorded from Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 100: 1-43 [7] (Australian records)

Price, R.D. 1975. The Menacanthus eurysternus complex (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) of the Passeriformes and Piciformes (Aves). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 68(4): 617-622 [617] (systematics, illustrations, Australian records)

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