Species Ricinus mugimaki (Uchida, 1915)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Physostomum mugimaki Uchida, S. 1915. Bird-infesting Mallophaga of Japan. (Genus Physostomum). Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 9(1): 67-72 [70].

  Type data:

   Lectotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Nagano, Shinano Province, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) whereabouts unknown 2♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Rheinwald, G. 1968. Die Mallophagengattung Ricinus De Geer, 1778. Revision der ausseramerikanischen Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 65: 181-326 [247].

  Type locality references:

  Rheinwald, G. 1968. Die Mallophagengattung Ricinus De Geer, 1778. Revision der ausseramerikanischen Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 65: 181-326 [247].

  Type host:

   Ficedula mugimaki (Temminck, 1835)

Distribution

States

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

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

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Rhipidura fuliginosa (Sparrman, 1787) [DICRURIDAE] Grey Fantail).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

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 [10] (Australian record)

Rheinwald, G. 1968. Die Mallophagengattung Ricinus De Geer, 1778. Revision der ausseramerikanischen Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 65: 181-326 [242] (systematics, illustrations)

History of changes