Species Pseudomenopon pilosum (Scopoli, 1763)

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• Pediculus pilosus Scopoli, G.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica, exhibens Insecta Carniolæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnæana. Vindobonae [=Vienna] : Trattner xxxvi 420 pp. [384].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 16388 ♂, Ireland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1951. The early literature on Mallophaga (part II, 1763–1775). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 2(1): 1-37 pls 1-3 [19].

  Type locality references:

  Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1951. The early literature on Mallophaga (part II, 1763–1775). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 2(1): 1-37 pls 1-3 [19].

  Type host:

   Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) [HALCYONIDAE]

  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. [302].
• Menopon tridens Burmeister, H.C.C. 1838. Mallophaga. pp. 418–443 in, Handbuch der Entomologie Bd 2, Pt 1. Berlin : Enslin. [440].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 10510 ♂, Ireland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1951. The early literature on Mallophaga (part II, 1763–1775). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 2(1): 1-37 pls 1-3 [19].

  Type locality references:

  Clay, T. & Hopkins, G.H.E. 1951. The early literature on Mallophaga (part II, 1763–1775). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 2(1): 1-37 pls 1-3 [19].

  Type host:

   Fulica atra atra Linnaeus, 1758
• Menopon tridens major Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [480] [junior primary homonym of Menopon major Piaget, 1880, p. 441].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 883 ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2♂ 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 [896].

  Type host:

   Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758

  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. [302].
• Pseudomenopon thompsoni Eichler, W. 1937. Einige Bemerkungen zur Ernährung und Eiablage der Mallophagen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1937: 80-111 [97] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Menopon tridens major Piaget, 1880].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Type host:

   Anser anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758) [ANATIDAE]

  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. [303].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Price, R.D. 1974. A review of the genus Pseudomenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 67(1): 73-84 [73]

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): Tribonyx ventralis (Gould, 1837) [RALLIDAE] Black-tailed Native-hen (as Gallinula ventralis); Fulica atra australis Gould, 1845 [RALLIDAE] Coot).

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 [8] (Australian record)

Lakshminarayana, K.V. 1977. Notes on the genus Pseudomenopon with remarks on host relationships. Angewandte Parasitologie 18(3): 152-162 (host associations)

Price, R.D. 1974. A review of the genus Pseudomenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 67(1): 73-84 [73] (systematics, illustrations, Australian record)

History of changes