Species Pectinopygus bassani (O. Fabricius, 1780)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pediculus bassani Fabricius, O. 1780. Fauna Groenlandica. Systematice sistens, Animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quad Nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque Synonyma Auctorum plurium, Descriptionem, Locum, Victum, Generationem, Mores, Usum, Capturamque singuli, pront detegendi Occasio fuit, maximaque Parte secundum proprias Observationes. Havniae & Lipsiae : Heineck & Faber 452 pp., 1 pl. [218].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH ♂, Plymouth, Devonshire, England.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Thompson, G.B. 1940. Notes on species of the genus Pectinopygus (s.l.)-(Mallophaga). - I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 5: 372-381 pl. 8 [380].

  Type host:

   Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

  Secondary source:

   Thompson, G.B. 1940. Notes on species of the genus Pectinopygus (s.l.)-(Mallophaga). - I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 5: 372-381 pl. 8 [373].
• Pectinopygus (Pectinopygus) bassani serrator Thompson, G.B. 1940. Notes on species of the genus Pectinopygus (s.l.)-(Mallophaga). - I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 5: 372-381 pl. 8 [381].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Storey's Creek, TAS.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ (many specimens, number of each sex unspecified).

  Type host:

   Morus serrator (G.R. Gray, 1843)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Palma, R.L. in Palma, R.L. & Barker, S.C. 1996. Phthiraptera. pp. 81-247, 333-361, 373-376 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 26. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xiii 418 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Morus serrator (G.R. Gray, 1843) [SULIDAE] Australasian Gannet).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

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 [16] (Australian record)

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