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Species Pygiopsylla hoplia Jordan & Rothschild, 1922

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Species Pygiopsylla hoplia Jordan & Rothschild, 1922

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Most commonly collected of Australian fleas and introduced to New Zealand, New Guinea and Polynesia.


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)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 [MURIDAE] Water-rat; Mastacomys fuscus Thomas, 1882 [MURIDAE] Broad-toothed Rat; Pseudomys higginsi (Trouessart, 1897) [MURIDAE] Long-tailed Mouse; Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) [LEPORIDAE] Rabbit; Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) [ORNITHORHYNCHIDAE] Platypus; Thylogale stigmatica (Gould, 1860) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-legged Pademelon; Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) [POTOROIDAE] Long-nosed Potoroo; Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) [PHALANGERIDAE] Common Brushtail Possum; Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785) [PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE] Common Ringtail Possum; Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] Southern Brown Bandicoot; Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842) [PERAMELIDAE] Northern Brown Bandicoot; Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot; Perameles gunnii Gray, 1838 [PERAMELIDAE] Eastern Barred Bandicoot; Dasyurus maculatus (Kerr, 1792) [DASYURIDAE] Spotted-tailed Quoll; Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800) [DASYURIDAE] Eastern Quoll; Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, 1842 [DASYURIDAE] Northern Quoll; Sarcophilus harrisii (Boitard, 1841) [DASYURIDAE] Tasmanian Devil; Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838) [DASYURIDAE] Yellow-footed Antechinus; Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841 [DASYURIDAE] Brown Antechinus; Antechinus swainsonii (Waterhouse, 1840) [DASYURIDAE] Dusky Antechinus; Antechinus minimus (Geoffroy, 1803) [DASYURIDAE] Swamp Antechinus; Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) [MURIDAE] Black Rat; Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat; Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841) [MURIDAE] Swamp Rat; Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) [MURIDAE] Brown Rat), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

A catholic species with a broad range of hosts.

 

General References

Dunnet, G.M. & Mardon, D.K. 1974. A monograph of Australian fleas (Siphonaptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 30: 1-273 [65] (taxonomy)

Jordan, K. & Rothschild, N.C. 1922. On Pygiopsylla and the allied genera of Siphonaptera. Ectoparasites 1: 231-265 [234] (misidentified female paratype of Pygiopsylla congrua as Pygiopsylla hoplia)

Mardon, D.K. & Allison, F.R. 1982. A new subspecies of Bibikovana rainbowi (Rothschild) (Siphonaptera: Pygopsyllidae) with records of other fleas from Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 21(3): 183-187 [Date published 18/Aug/1982] [186] (note that material from QLD determined as Pygiopsylla hoplia should now be referred to Pygiopsylla phiola)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)