Species Quadraceps rubricollis Emerson & Price, 1985

Museums

Regional Maps

• Quadraceps rubricollis Emerson, K.C. & Price, R.D. 1985. The identity of Quadraceps crassipedalis (Harrison) and two new species of Quadraceps (Mallophaga: Philopteridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 87(2): 395-401 [399].

  Type data:

   Holotype QVM 415 ♂, Ordnance Point, TAS.
  Paratype(s) QVM 13♀ 8♀ (paratype series split between QVM, EFWM, USNM, BMNH, OSUS); EFWM 13♀ 8♀ (paratype series split between QVM, EFWM, USNM, BMNH, OSUS); USNM 13♀ 8♀ (paratype series split between QVM, EFWM, USNM, BMNH, OSUS); BMNH 13♀ 8♀ (paratype series split between QVM, EFWM, USNM, BMNH, OSUS); OSUS 13♀ 8♀ (paratype series split between QVM, EFWM, USNM, BMNH, OSUS).

  Type host:

   Thinornis rubricollis (Gmelin, 1789)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), 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), 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), 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): Thinornis rubricollis (Gmelin, 1789) [CHARADRIIDAE] Hooded Plover).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

History of changes