Species Echidnophaga myrmecobii Rothschild, 1909

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• Echidnophaga myrmecobii Rothschild, N.C. 1909. Notes on fleas in the K.K. Hofmuseum in Vienna. Novitates Zoologicae 16: 57-60 [57].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Parramatta, Sydney, NSW.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 3♂ 11♀ (ex Trichosurus vulpecula); BMNH 1♀ (ex Dimenia superciliosa =Pseudonaja textilis).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, 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 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, sanguinivore (host(s): Pseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) [ELAPIDAE] Common Brown Snake; Myrmecobius fasciatus Waterhouse, 1836 [MYRMECOBIIDAE] Numbat; Phascogale calura Gould, 1844 [DASYURIDAE] Red-tailed Phascogale; Bettongia lesueur (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) [POTOROIDAE] Burrowing Bettong; Macrotis lagotis (Reid, 1837) [THYLACOMYIDAE] Bilby; Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785) [PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE] Common Ringtail Possum; Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen, 1845) [VOMBATIDAE] Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat; Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) [PHALANGERIDAE] Common Brushtail Possum; Antechinomys laniger (Gould, 1856) [DASYURIDAE] Kultarr; Dasyurus maculatus (Kerr, 1792) [DASYURIDAE] Spotted-tailed Quoll; Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800) [DASYURIDAE] Eastern Quoll; Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould, 1844) [DASYURIDAE] Fat-tailed Dunnart; Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 [MACROPODIDAE] Eastern Grey Kangaroo; Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) [LEPORIDAE] Rabbit; Canis lupus familiaris Linaeus, 1758 [CANIDAE] Domestic Dog; Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus, 1758 [CANIDAE] Fox; Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758 [FELIDAE] Cat; Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) [MURIDAE] Brown Rat; Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) [MURIDAE] Black Rat; Rattus villosissimus (Waite, 1898) [MURIDAE] Long-haired Rat; Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 [MURIDAE] House Mouse; Notomys mitchellii (Ogilby, 1838) [MURIDAE] Mitchell's Hopping-mouse; Leporillus conditor (Sturt, 1848) [MURIDAE] Greater Stick-nest Rat; Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 [MURIDAE] Water-rat; Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 [HOMINIDAE] Human).

Extra Ecological Information

Evidently no preferred host species.

 

General References

Dunnet, G.M. & Mardon, D.K. 1974. A monograph of Australian fleas (Siphonaptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 30: 1-273 [27] (hosts, taxonomy)

Mules, M.W. 1940. Notes on the life history and artificial breeding of the Australian "stickfast" flea, Echidnophaga myrmecobii Rothschild. Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science 18: 385-390 (life history)

Olliff, A.S. 1886. Description of a new Aphanipterous insect from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 171-172 [172] (misidentified Echidnophaga myrmecobii as Echidnophaga ambulans)

 

History of changes

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