Species Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) uppalensis (Rudow, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Docophorus uppalensis Rudow, F. 1870. Beobachtungen über die Lebensweise und den Bau der Mallophagen oder Pelzfresser sowie Beschreibung neuer Arten. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle N.F. 2 35(6): 449-487 [455].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (lost see Hopkins, G.H.E. 1951. Stray notes on Mallophaga. - XI. 92. The host of Saemundssonia uppalensis (Rudow), 1870. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 4: 374 [374]), Upolu Is., Western Samoa.

  Type locality references:

  Hopkins, G.H.E. 1951. Stray notes on Mallophaga. - XI. 92. The host of Saemundssonia uppalensis (Rudow), 1870. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 4: 374 [374] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Phaethon lepturus dorotheae Mathews, 1912

  Secondary source:

   Hopkins, G.H.E. 1951. Stray notes on Mallophaga. - XI. 92. The host of Saemundssonia uppalensis (Rudow), 1870. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 4: 374 [374].
• Docophorus breviantennatus Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [108].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀, locality unknown.

  Type locality references:

  Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [329] (for comment on authenticity of type host).

  Type host:

   Morus serrator (G.R. Gray, 1843)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Emerson, K.C. 1972. Checklist of the Mallophaga of North America (North of Mexico). Suborder Ischnocera. Dugway (Utah) : Deseret Test Center Part 1 200 pp. [166]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802 [PHAETHONTIDAE] White-tailed Tropicbird).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Timmermann, G. 1955. Studien über Mallophagen aus den Sammlungen des Britischen Museums (Nat. Hist.), London. 3. Mitteilung. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 513-534 [516] (systematics)

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