Species Boopia tarsata Piaget, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Boopia tarsata Piaget, E. 1880. Les Pédiculines. Essai Monographique. Leide : E.J. Brill xxxix 714 pp. pls 1-56. [599] [pl. 50, explanation to fig. 1 as Boopia longitarsata, lapsus].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1485 ♂, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1485 ♀.

  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 [33].

  Type host:

   Vombatus ursinus (Shaw, 1800) [VOMBATIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Vombatus ursinus (Shaw, 1800) [VOMBATIDAE] Bare-nosed Wombat), sanguinivore.

History of changes