Species Psittaconirmus (Psittaconirmus) launceloti Eichler, 1943

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psittaconirmus launceloti Eichler, W. 1943. Notulae Mallophagologicae. IX. Oedicnemiceps nov. gen. und andere interessante Federlinge von bemerkenswerten Wirten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 141(3/4): 57-61 [60].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 609 ♀, Myall River, NSW.
  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 host:

   Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus (Gmelin, 1788)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus (Gmelin, 1788) [PSITTACIDAE] Rainbow Lorikeet; Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus (Kuhl, 1820) [PSITTACIDAE] Scaly-breasted Lorikeet).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

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, illustrations, Australian record)

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