Species Quadraceps separatus (Kellogg & Kuwana, 1902)

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• Nirmus separatus Kellogg, V.L. & Kuwana, S.I. 1902. Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898–1899. X. Entomological results (8). Mallophaga from birds. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 457-499 pls 28-31 [472] [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 1052b ♂, Española Is (= Hood Is.), Galápagos Ils.
  Paralectotype(s) EMUC 5♀.

  Type host:

   Geospiza conirostris Ridgway, 1890 (<0180> [316] for comment on authenticity of type host)

  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

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, 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), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Anous stolidus pileatus (Scopoli, 1786) [LARIDAE] Common Noddy).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Timmermann, G. 1952. Revision der bei Seeschwalben schmarotzenden Kletterfederlinge der Gattung Quadraceps (Clay u. Meinertzhagen). Zoologischer Anzeiger 148: 71-87 [73] (systematics)

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

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