Subspecies Stizoptera bichenovii bichenovii (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fringilla bichenovii Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [258].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.49 adult unsexed, Qld: Shoalwater Bay, Broad Sound.
• Munia bichenovii pallescens Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [429].

Generic Combinations

• Stizoptera bichenovii bichenovii (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827). —
  Hooper, D.M. & Price, T.D. 2015. Rates of karyotypic evolution in Estrildid finches differ between island and continental clades. Evolution 69(4): 890–903

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

History of changes