Species Trinoton laveryi Clay, 1963

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trinoton laveryi Clay, T. 1963. New species of Trinoton Nitzsch (Mallophaga, Insecta). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 14(3): 87-93 pls 9-11 [91].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T-6078 ♂, Townsville, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM 4♂ 5♀ (paratype series split between QM, BMNH); BMNH 4♂ 5♀ (paratype series split between QM, BMNH).

  Type host:

   Dendrocygna arcuata (Horsfield, 1824)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), 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), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), 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), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Dendrocygna (Dendrocygna) arcuata (Horsfield, 1824) [ANATIDAE] Wandering Whistling-Duck).

Extra Ecological Information

Feather-feeder.

General References

Eichler, W. & Vasjukova, T.T. 1981. Die Mallophagengattung. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 57(1): 23-62 pls 1-9 [33] (systematics)

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