Species Boopia grandis Piaget, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Boopia grandis Piaget, E. 1885. Les Pédiculines. Essai monographique. Leiden : E.J. Brill. [154].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1482 ♀, Rotterdam Zoo.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1483–4 4♀.

  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 [25].

  Type host:

   Macropus rufus Desmarest, 1822 [MACROPODIDAE] (but probably an unnatural host, see <8010>)
• Boopia peregrina Mjöberg, E.G. 1910. Studien über Mallophagen und Anopluren. Arkiv för Zoologi 6(13): 1-296 [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH, India Lutra pruneri (=?Lutra lutra Brünnich, 1771).

  Type host:

   Lutra pruneri [MUSTELIDAE] (=?Lutra lutra Brünnich, 1771)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Werneck, F.L. & Thompson, G.B. 1940. Sur les mallophages des marsupiaux d'Australie (Mallophaga Boopidae). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro 35: 411-456 [421]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 [MACROPODIDAE] Eastern Grey Kangaroo; Macropus rufus (Desmarest, 1822) [MACROPODIDAE] Red Kangaroo; Macropus fuliginosus (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] Western Grey Kangaroo), sanguinivore.

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