• Pelmatocerandra Enderlen, G. 1908. Die Insekten des antarktischen Gebietes. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition 1901–1903 Zoologie 2: 361-528 pls 1-24 [449].

  Type species:

   Nirmus setosus Giebel, 1876 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, southern South America, subantarctic islands.

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Pelmatocerandra enderleini Eichler, W. 1949. Notulae Mallophagologicae. XV. Sturmvogel-Federlinge. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 9(3): 337-347 [338].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH WEC 1221a ♂, South Georgia Ils.
  Paratype(s) ZMH ♀ (labelled as allotype).

  Type host:

   Pelecanoides georgicus Murphy & Harper, 1916

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Heard Is.

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Pelecanoides georgicus Murphy & Harper, 1916 [PROCELLARIIDAE] South Georgian Diving-Petrel).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1958. A note on some Antarctic Mallophaga. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 1: 250-256 pl. 4 [253] (systematics, illustrations, Australian record)

History of changes

• Nirmus setosus Giebel, C.G.A. 1876. Diagnoses of some species of Mallophaga collected by the Rev. A. E. Eaton during the late Transit-of-Venus Expedition to Kerguelen's Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 17: 388-389 [388] [full description in Giebel, C.G.A. 1879. Mallophaga. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 168(extra volume): 250–257 pl. 14 [253]].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 639 ♂, Observatory Bay, Kerguelen Is.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ 2♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. 1958. A note on some Antarctic Mallophaga. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 1: 250-256 pl. 4 [252].

  Type locality references:

  Giebel, C.G.A. 1879. Mallophaga. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 168(extra volume): 250-257 pl. 14 [254].

  Type host:

   Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789)

  Secondary source:

   Giebel, C.G.A. 1879. Mallophaga. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 168(extra volume): 250-257 pl. 14.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Heard Is., Macquarie Is.

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789) [PROCELLARIIDAE] Common Diving-petrel).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1958. A note on some Antarctic Mallophaga. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 1: 250-256 pl. 4 [252] (systematics, illustrations, Australian record)

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)

History of changes