Genus Actornithophilus Ferris, 1916

Museums

Regional Maps

• Actornithophilus Ferris, G.F. 1916. Some generic groups in the mallophagan family Menoponidae. Canadian Entomologist 48: 301-311 [303].

  Type species:

   Colpocephalum uniseriatum Piaget, 1880 by original designation.
• Clypeodon Timmermann, G. 1954. Studien über Mallophagen aus den Sammlungen des Britischen Museums (Nat. Hist.), London. II. Das Amblycerengenus Actornithophilus Ferris, 1916. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 7: 829-841 pl. 26 [830].

  Type species:

   Colpocephalum incisum Piaget, 1880 by original designation (as Clypeodon incisus (Piaget), 1880).
• Larithophilus Zlotorzycka, J. 1963. Larithophilus gen. n. separated from Actornithophilus Ferris (Mallophaga) with a description of new and a review of known species. Acta Parasitogicia Polonica 11(16): 223-228 pl. 1 [223].

  Type species:

   Colpocephalum maurum Nitzsch (in Giebel), 1866 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clay, T. 1962. A key to the species of Actornithophilus Ferris with notes and descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11(5): 189-244 pls 4-11 [192]
• Price, R.D. & Emerson, K.C. 1966. New synonymies within the bird lice (Mallophaga). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 39(3): 430-433 [432]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide except polar regions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, 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

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, NW oceanic
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: NE oceanic
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Distribution References