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Genus Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911

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Genus Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911

  • Rallicola 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 [324].
    Type species:
     Pediculus ortygometrae Schrank, 1781 by original designation (as Oncophorus attenuatus Nitzsch =Rallicola ortygometrae (Schrank, 1781)).
  • Oncophorus 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 [475].
    Type species:
     Oncophorus schillingi Piaget, 1880 by subsequent designation, see Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [251]
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [251].
  • Parricola Harrison, L. 1915. Mallophaga from Apteryx, and their significance; with a note on the genus Rallicola. Parasitology 8(1): 88-100 [90] [introduced as a subgenus of Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911].
    Type species:
     Oncophorus sulcatus Piaget, 1880 by original designation (as Rallicola (Parricola) sulcata Piaget).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. [317]

 

Excluded Taxa

PHILOPTERIDAE: Rallicola sulcata (Piaget, 1880) [from Hydralector gallinaceus (= Irediparra gallinacea) (Temminck, 1828) listed by Johnston & Harrison (1912: 5) is probably a misidentification of Rallicola irediparrae Price & Emerson, 1987 (Palma in Palma & Barker, 1996)].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide except polar regions.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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)

Distribution References

  • Clay, T. 1953. Revisions of the genera of Mallophaga. I. The Rallicola-complex. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 123(3): 563-587 pl. 1
  • Emerson, K.C. 1955. A review of the genus Rallicola (Philopteridae, Mallophaga) found on Aramidae, Psophiidae and Rallidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 48(4): 284-299

General References

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

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