Species Quadraceps nychthemerus (Burmeister, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nirmus nychthemerus Burmeister, H.C.C. 1838. Mallophaga. pp. 418–443 in, Handbuch der Entomologie Bd 2, Pt 1. Berlin : Enslin. [428] [incorrect original spelling as nycthemerus].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 4673 ♂, Egypt.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Timmermann, G. 1952. Revision der bei Seeschwalben schmarotzenden Kletterfederlinge der Gattung Quadraceps (Clay u. Meinertzhagen). Zoologischer Anzeiger 148: 71-87 [78].

  Type locality references:

  Timmermann, G. 1952. Revision der bei Seeschwalben schmarotzenden Kletterfederlinge der Gattung Quadraceps (Clay u. Meinertzhagen). Zoologischer Anzeiger 148: 71-87 [78].

  Type host:

   Sterna albifrons albifrons Pallas, 1764

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), 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), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Sternula nereis (Gould, 1843) [LARIDAE] Fairy Tern).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Timmermann, G. 1957. Studien zu einer vergleichenden Parasitologie der Charadriiformes oder Regenfeifervögel. 1: Mallophaga. Parasitologische Schriftenreihe 8: 1-204 pls 1-15 [pl. 8] (photographs)

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