Species Boopia brevispinosa (Harrison & Johnston, 1916)

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• Heterodoxus brevispinosa Harrison, L. & Johnston, T.H. 1916. Mallophaga from marsupials. I. Parasitology 3: 338-359 [355].

  Type data:

   Neotype ANIC 1505/10 ♂, Victoria Range, VIC.

  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 [39].

  Type host:

   Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841 [DASYURIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841 [DASYURIDAE] Brown Antechinus; Antechinus swainsonii (Waterhouse, 1840) [DASYURIDAE] Dusky Antechinus; Antechinus bellus (Thomas, 1904) [DASYURIDAE] Fawn Antechinus; Antechinus minirnus (Geoffroy, 1803) [DASYURIDAE] Swamp Antechinus; Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838) [DASYURIDAE] Yellow-footed Antechinus), sanguinivore.

General References

Hopkins, G.H.E. & Clay, T. 1952. A Checklist of the Genera & Species of Mallophaga. London : Trustees of the British Museum 362 pp. (as Heterodoxus brevispinosa (Harrison & Johnston, 1916))

Mjöberg, E. 1919. Preliminary description of a new family and three new genera of Mallophaga. Entomologisk Tidskrift 40: 93-96 (as Phacogalia brevispinosa (Harrison & Johnston, 1916))

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