Subspecies Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lobaticeps lobaticeps (Giebel, 1874)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Docophorus lobaticeps Giebel, C.G.A. 1874. Insecta epizoa. Die auf Säugetieren und Vögeln schmarotzenden Insecten nach Chr. L. Nitzsch's Nachlass bearbeitet. Leipzig : O. Wiegand xvi 308 pp. pls 1-20. [109].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 311 ♂, South Wales, Britain.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Clay, T. 1949. Species of the genus Saemundssonia (Mallophaga) from the Sterninae. American Museum Novitates 1409: 1-25 [17].

  Type locality references:

  Clay, T. 1949. Species of the genus Saemundssonia (Mallophaga) from the Sterninae. American Museum Novitates 1409: 1-25 [17].

  Type host:

   Chlidonias niger niger (Linnaeus, 1758)

  Secondary source:

   Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [333].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Chlidonias (Pelodes) hybrida (Pallas, 1811) [LARIDAE] Whiskered Tern).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Clay, T. 1949. Species of the genus Saemundssonia (Mallophaga) from the Sterninae. American Museum Novitates 1409: 1-25 [15] (systematics, illustrations)

History of changes