Species Quadraceps ridgwayi (Kellogg, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nirmus ridgwayi Kellogg, V.L. 1906. A second collection of Mallophaga from the birds of the Galapagos and Revillagigedo Islands and neighboring waters. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32: 315-324 [317] [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 Australia].

  Type data:

   Lectotype EMUC 1360a ♂, Santa Cruz Is. (=Indefatigable Is.), Galápagos Ils.
  Paralectotype(s) EMUC 3♀.

  Type host:

   Haematopus palliatus galapagensis Ridgway, 1886

  Secondary source:

   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

Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumaustralian*.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Haematopus longirostris Vieillot, 1817 [HAEMATOPODIDAE] Pied Oystercatcher; Haematopus fuliginosus Gould, 1845 [HAEMATOPODIDAE] Sooty Oystercatcher).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

 

General References

Clay, T. 1981. The ischnoceran lice (Phthiraptera) of the oystercatchers (Aves: Haematopodidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 59(6): 933-938 [937] (host-parasite relationships)

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 records)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023	Phthiraptera	15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
28-Sep-2022	Phthiraptera	26-Jul-2023	MODIFIED
18-Apr-2016	PHILOPTERIDAE	15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED