Genus Quadraceps Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1939

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• Quadraceps Clay, T. & Meinertzhagen, R. 1939. Three new genera of Mallophaga from Charadriiformes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 4: 450-454 [453].

  Type species:

   Nirmus hospes Nitzsch (in Giebel), 1866 by original designation (as Degeeriella vanelli (Denny, 1842)).
• Cistellatrix Timmermann, G. 1953. Die Federläuse des Säbelschnäblers. Bombus 78/79: 329-333 [331].

  Type species:

   Nirmus decipiens Denny, 1842 by original designation (as Cistellatrix decipiens (Denny, 1842)).
• Proneptis Timmermann, G. 1953. Die Federläuse des Säbelschnäblers. Bombus 78/79: 329-333 [331].

  Type species:

   Nirmus semifissus Nitzsch (in Giebel), 1866 by original designation (as Proneptis semifissa (Nitzsch), in (Giebel, C.G.A., 1866)).
• Chioniceps Eichler, W. 1982. Notulae Mallophagologicae. XIII. Goliathipon nov. gen. und weitere neue Taxa der Gattungsstufe. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 29(1/3): 81-87 [82] [introduced as a subgenus of Quadraceps Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1939].

  Type species:

   Quadraceps vaginalis Timmerman, 1963 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Palma, R.L. in Palma, R.L. & Barker, S.C. 1996. Phthiraptera. pp. 81-247, 333-361, 373-376 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 26. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xiii 418 pp.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

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)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)