Genus Menopon Nitzsch, 1818

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• Menopon Nitzsch, C.L. 1818. Die Familien und Gattungen der Theierinsekten (insecta epizoica); als ein Prodromus einer Naturgeschichte derselben. Magazin der Entomologie 3: 261-318 [299] [introduced as a subgenus of Liotheum Nitzsch, 1818].

  Type species:

   Pediculus gallinae Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Johnston, T.H. & Harrison, L. 1911. Notes on some Mallophagan generic names. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36(2): 321-328 [327] (as Menopon gallinaeLinnaeus (=Menopon trigonocephalum; Menopon pallidum Nitzsch).

 

Excluded Taxa

MENOPONIDAE: Menopon obscurum Piaget, 1880 [recorded by Johnston & Harrison (1912b: 19) from the domestic duck is probably a misidentification of Holomenopon leucoxanthum (Burmeister, 1838) (Palma in Palma & Barker (1996), based on Price (1971: 635, 641)].

MENOPONIDAE: Menopon fulvomaculatum Denny, 1842 [recorded by Johnston & Harrison (1912b: 19) from Gennaeus nycthemerus (Linnaeus, 1758) (= Lophura nycthemera (Linnaeus, 1758)) which is a host not listed among the Australian Galliformes by Condon (1975: 90–96) (Palma in Palma & Barker, 1996)].

MENOPONIDAE: Menopon infumatum Piaget, 1885 [originally described from Dacelo gigas (Boddaert, 1783) (=Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783)) Madagascar, and listed by Johnston & Harrison (1912a: 10), is a doubtful record (Clay, 1949: 832) as Menacanthus infumatus (Piaget, 1885))].

MENOPONIDAE: Menopon bifurcatum Piaget, 1880 [listed by Thompson & Plomley (1938: 111) from Calyptorhynchus funereus (Shaw, 1794) is a nom. dub. (Price & Beer, 1966: 952)].

MENOPONIDAE: Menopon giganteum Denny, 1842 [recorded by Johnston & Harrison (1912b: 19) from Columba livia Gmelin, 1789 is not a senior synonym of Hohorstiella lata (Piaget, 1880) (Hopkins & Clay, 1952: 173) as Hohorstiella gigantea (Denny, 1842));].

MENOPONIDAE: Menopon commissum Neumann, 1890 [listed by Thompson & Plomley (1938) (op. cit. p. 111) from Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788) is a nomen dubium (in Palma & Barker (1996), based on Price & Beer (1966: 639))].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide except polar regions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Distribution References

General References

Clay, T. 1949. Systematic notes on the Piaget collections of Mallophaga. - Pt I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 2: 811-838, 895-921

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.

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

Johnston, T.H. & Harrison, L. 1912a. A census of Australian Mallophaga. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 24: 1-15

Johnston, T.H. & Harrison, L. 1912b. A list of Mallophaga found on introduced and domesticated animals in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 24: 17-22

Palma, R.L. in Palma, R.L. & Barker, S.C. 1996. Phthiraptera. pp. 81-247, 333-361, 373-376 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 26. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Australia

Price, R.D. 1971. A review of the genus Holomenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) from the Anseriformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64(3): 633-646

Price, R.D. & Beer, J.R. 1966. A review of the genus Franciscoloa Conci (Mallophaga: Menoponidae). Pacific Insects 8(3): 633-648

Price, R.D. & Beer, J.R. 1966. The genus Psittacomenopon (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) of the Psittaciformes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 59(5): 950-955

Thompson, G.B. & Plomley, N.J.B. 1938. A list of the insect ectoparasites recorded from Australian birds and mammals. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 105-127