Species Boopia notafusca Le Souëf, 1902

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

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH B.M.715,1514/5 ♂, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1514/6 2♀.

  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 [31].

  Type host:

   Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Macropus robustus Gould, 1841 [MACROPODIDAE] Common Wallaroo; Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby), sanguinivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Association with common wallaroo uncertain.

History of changes