Species Boopia bettongia Le Souëf, 1902

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• Boopia bettongia Le Souëf, S.A. 1902. Descriptions of some new mallophaga from marsupials. Victorian Naturalist 19: 50-51 [50].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH B.M.743,1508/4 ♂, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1508/5 ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kéler, S. von 1971. A revision of the Australasian Boopiidae (Insecta: Phthiraptera) with notes on the Trimenoponidae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 6: 3-126 [19].

  Type host:

   Aepyprymnus rufescens (Gray, 1837) [POTOROIDAE] (probably an unnatural host, see Kéler (1971))
• Boopia phanerocerata Harrison, L. & Johnston, T.H. 1916. Mallophaga from marsupials. I. Parasitology 3: 338-359 [345].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH B.M.725,1527/8 ♂, Wooloomooloo, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1508/5 ♀; BMNH 1505/32 ♀; BMNH 726–729 4♀.

  Type host:

   Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE]

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kéler, S. von 1971. A revision of the Australasian Boopiidae (Insecta: Phthiraptera) with notes on the Trimenoponidae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 6: 3-126 [19]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot; Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842) [PERAMELIDAE] Northern Brown Bandicoot; Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] Southern Brown Bandicoot,), sanguinivore.

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