Species Psittaconirmus (Psittaconirmus) australis Harrison, 1915

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psittaconirmus australis Harrison, L. 1915. On a new family and five new genera of Mallophaga. Parasitology 7: 383-407 pls 26-27 [403].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 610 ♂, Bow River, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes) I. Genera Neopsittaconirmus Conci, 1942, and Psittaconirmus Harrison, 1915. Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 25(3): 121-201 [191].

  Type locality references:

  Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes) I. Genera Neopsittaconirmus Conci, 1942, and Psittaconirmus Harrison, 1915. Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 25(3): 121-201 [191] (for restriction of type host).

  Type host:

   Glossopsitta porphyrocephala (Dietrichsen, 1837)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), 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), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), 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): Glossopsitta concinna (Shaw, 1791) [PSITTACIDAE] Musk Lorikeet; Glossopsitta porphyrocephala (Dietrichsen, 1837) [PSITTACIDAE] Purple-crowned Lorikeet).

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 [18] (Australian record)

Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes) I. Genera Neopsittaconirmus Conci, 1942, and Psittaconirmus Harrison, 1915. Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 25(3): 121-201 [190] (systematics, illustrations)

Price, R.D. & Clayton, D.H. 1983. A review of the genus Psittaconirmus (Mallophaga: Philopteridae) from South Pacific parrots (Psittaciformes). International Journal of Entomology 25(1): 56-70 [57] (systematics)

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