Species Pectinopygus sulae (Rudow, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lipeurus sulae Rudow, F. 1869. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Mallophagen oder Pelzfresser. Neue exotische Arten der Familie Philopterus. Dissertation Universität Leipzig 47 pp. [43].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 13438a ♂, Java.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1955. Notes on the Rudow Collection of Mallophaga at Hamburg. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 53: 49-73 [65].

  Type host:

   Sula leucogaster plotus (Forster, 1844)

  Secondary source:

   Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1955. Notes on the Rudow Collection of Mallophaga at Hamburg. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 53: 49-73 [64].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) [SULIDAE] Brown Booby; Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766) [SULIDAE] Red-footed Booby).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1964. Geographical distribution of the Mallophaga (Insecta). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 84: 14-16 (distribution)

History of changes