Species Degeeriella fusca (Denny, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nirmus fuscus Denny, H. 1842. Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniae. London : Henry G. Bohn xxiv 262 pp. pls 1-26. [49, 118].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 350 ♀, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 3♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. 1958. Revisions of Mallophaga genera. Degeeriella from the Falconiformes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 7(4): 121-207 pls 1-9 [164].

  Type host:

   Circus aeruginosus aeruginosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Nirmus aeruginosi Denny, H. 1852. Anoplura or parasitic insects. Part XI. pp. 1-51 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). pp. 1–51 in Gray, J.E. (ed.) List of Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum. London : British Museum. [16] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Nirmus fuscus Denny, 1842].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Kelerinirmus circi Boetticher, H. von & Eichler, W. 1954. Parasitophyletische Studien zur Ornithosystematik. II Die Verteilung der Degeeriellidae und Falcolipeuridae bei den Accipitres. Biologisches Zentralblatt 73: 212-221 [215].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

  Type host:

   Circus aeruginosus Linnaeus, 1758

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clay, T. 1958. Revisions of Mallophaga genera. Degeeriella from the Falconiformes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 7(4): 121-207 pls 1-9 [162]

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): Accipiter fasciatus fasciatus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) [ACCIPITRIDAE] Brown Goshawk; Accipiter (Leucospiza) fasciatus didimus (Mathews, 1912) [ACCIPITRIDAE] Brown Goshawk; Accipiter (Leucospiza) hiogaster natalis (Lister, 1889) [ACCIPITRIDAE] Christmas Island Brown Goshawk; Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828 [ACCIPITRIDAE] Spotted Harrier; Circus approximans Peale, 1848 [ACCIPITRIDAE] Swamp Harrier).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1958. Revisions of Mallophaga genera. Degeeriella from the Falconiformes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 7(4): 121-207 pls 1-9 [162] (systematics, illustrations)

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 [13] (Australian records)

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