Species Psittoecus eos (Rudow, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Docophorus eos Rudow, F. 1869. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Mallophagen oder Pelzfresser. Neue exotische Arten der Familie Philopterus. Dissertation Universität Leipzig 47 pp. [15].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMH ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMH 3♂ 4♀.

  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 [60].

  Type host:

   Cacatua roseicapilla Vieillot, 1817

  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. [306].

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): Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) [CACATUIDAE] Galah (= Cacatua roseicapilla); Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea Gould, 1843 [CACATUIDAE] Little Corella).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Guimarães, L.R. 1974. Ischnocera (Mallophaga) infesting parrots (Psittaciformes). II. Genera Psittoecus Conci, 1942, and Forficuloecus Conci, 1941. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 28(9): 163-180 [167] (systematics, illustration)

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